My Father Quotes

At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.

Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.

The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn

Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense.

I am not a conqueror. I am nothing like you.

The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father which is in heaven.

A father is a banker provided by nature.

Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him.

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'

I grew up in rural Dixon, CA, and I've been hunting with my father ever since I was a young boy. He taught me how to hunt and shoot, firearm safety, and have respect for the outdoors.

All I wanted to do was come into my own and find out my career path and what I wanted to do with my life - but, at the same time, showing respect to my father and mother and make them proud as well.

You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

I have a Father's Day every day.

I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

I was raised by my father I was daddy's girl.

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.

We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.

Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.

When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy.

My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

I'm a character and a sports entertainer and a wrestler, but I'm also a father and a husband and a provider.

My father is a huge horse racing fan, so I was introduced to the sport long before 'Seabiscuit.' But the role made me an even bigger fan. Horse racing is one of my favorite sports.

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.

The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.

I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.

There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as Father Christmas, being hilarious, and I'm suddenly thinking, 'Where am I?'

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

I owe my life to my father. I remember that my first Christmas present was a ball. In the district where we lived, there weren't many kids who had one.

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.

My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.

The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.