My Father Quotes

I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all.

One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

Whether it was making my bed or making a movie, my mother and father never hesitated to say how proud they were of me, and that means so very much to a child.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.

If we can just get young people to do the same as their fathers did, that is, wear condoms

Don't look for a life virtually free from discomfort, pain, pressure, challenge, or grief, for those are the tools a loving Father uses to stimulate our personal growth and understanding.

When I was growing up, there was always somebody who wanted to pick a fight with me. I'd say, I'm not a famous boxer, my father is. If you want to fight somebody, go fight my Dad.

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.

Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.

My mother wasnʹt sleeping with anybody. She doesnʹt even sleep with my father.

A man can never compete with a woman's father

What have you gotten me into?" I hissed at him. "Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn't I have just picked you up at the police station for underage drinking, like most fathers?

Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus

God is the Father who is full of mercy. God is the Father who is full of comfort. That is the kind of relationship he offers to you.

A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself.

My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter.

I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they’re healthy and happy, that’s the most important thing.

I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.

I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.

Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

I'm going to go with ZZ Top -- they're my faves . . . because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards.

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

If the father is not straight naider will be the son.

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through.

I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.

The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father.

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.