My Father Quotes

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

Almighty Father, please stop making jerks. Amen...Break!

Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.

It is my duty to be a father to my kids.

The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

Your grandfather's coffin is heavier than you expect. Your father's coffin is heavier than you can bear.

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement.

Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.

Mexican style of boxing training is different from what my father had trained me. It was good for me because it was an added knowledge, an addition to my boxing IQ.

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames.

It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

I look a lot like my father when he was my age.

My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.

Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend.

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

My father passed away before he saw me perform. I can't help but wonder what he would think of all this. I go to a job in full makeup.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.

I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

My father loves his country and is ready to lead it. In my fathers gut: integrity.

I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.

I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

My father is quite conservative and religious, and hes been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.

When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego suddenly shrinks because you are so touched by the dimension of your surroundings.