Father Quotes

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face.

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

I have a Father's Day every day.

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'

This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate.