Father Quotes

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.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.

He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.