My Father Quotes

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

Happy Father's Day -- or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day.

Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

Of all the things I have been privileged to do and experience in life, the highest honor has been fatherhood. Wishing Fathers everywhere a wonderful day.

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

I don't like weeds! My father made me mow weeds and cut weeds when I was a kid. I've hated weeds ever since I was 12 years old. I'll never go in the weeds! I'll never gonna take you in the weeds.

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

I look a lot like my father and his mother.

I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of brief things must reckon with the precision of language.

My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

Father is my Defender (Hero). Mother is my Teacher. Sister is my Counselor. Wife is my Savior. Children are my Fighters. Then what is the role of my Friend? Friend is my Motivator in life.

It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father.

My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

My father always told me that. "Nobody knows anything, so don't listen to anyone else."

My father's definitely old-school. And he raised me with integrity - to be places on time, show up, and work hard.

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.

I think my father would give me the Department of the Interior because of my love of the outdoors, so we can get that going.

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

You're living in a delusion, based on your legendary father.

With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

My father was a beautiful man.

Are we going to fire the father to hire the son? We want to create jobs for young people, but not at the expense of others.

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for those figures in their lives.

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)