Father Quotes

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.