Father Quotes

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name.

My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.

There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.

My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.