Father Quotes

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.

I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.