Father Quotes

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.

One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.

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.