Father Quotes

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.

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.

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

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.