Father Quotes

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.

He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.

My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father.

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam.

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words."

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!