Father Quotes

My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart.

I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.

My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey.

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.