Father Quotes

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.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.