Father Quotes

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

If they had killed by father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace.

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

My father told me, never have partners.

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

Father of four. I like the sound of that.

I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.