My Father Quotes

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

You are the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the teacher and the guide for the soul that has been placed in your trust.

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

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

Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow, ' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'

I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.

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.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

My father played five years for Valence in France's second division. I'd always cry when he would leave for training. Every morning, I'd say, 'Dad, take me with you. Please, please take me with you!'

My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.

My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

My mother was an activist so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories for your son.

My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.

A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.'

In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died.

I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration the fact that he plays my father in 'Noah' was amazing.

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.