Father Quotes

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.