Father Quotes

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.

I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

I have to be a father first and a husband first.

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

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.