Father Quotes

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.

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my Emmitt from the rest of them. Even though on my birth certificate it has one T, I just added the extra T for me.

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.

The singing was something I got from my father.

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

My father told me abuse is generational.

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.