Father Quotes

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

My father used to say, 'Well, Ann, maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.'

I took after my father.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I loved my mother and father.

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.