Father Quotes

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.

On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.