Father Quotes

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart.

I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.

My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey.

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.