Father Quotes

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.