Father Quotes

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive.

I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed.

He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband is a doctor, just like I won't stop standing up for veterans because my father served in World War II.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.