Father Quotes

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

My father used to say, 'Well, Ann, maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.'

I took after my father.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I loved my mother and father.

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.