My Father Quotes
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My father hasn't told me about it but he showed me the straight path
— Fahmid Hassan Prohor
When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
— Bertrand Piccard
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
— Franz Boas
I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.
— Johann Hari
My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.
— Amar'e Stoudemire
My father had bought him a shirt
that said Sure you can date my daughter. In a completely unrelated topic,
have you seen my shotgun? — Tara Sivec
that said Sure you can date my daughter. In a completely unrelated topic,
have you seen my shotgun? — Tara Sivec
My son, do not forget your father's instructions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
— Lawrence Welk
My father said I was perfectly suited for Washington because I've always worked around nuts.
— Leon Panetta
I would never get married while my father is still alive because I wouldn't want him to walk me down the aisle.
— Chelsea Handler
You may be my new princess. But your mama is my queen.
— Rachel Van Dyken
Wait!' called Blue. 'Will you tell me about my father?"
"No," Gwenllian replied. "I will get mayonnaise. — Maggie Stiefvater
"No," Gwenllian replied. "I will get mayonnaise. — Maggie Stiefvater
I've done my work and I'm happy with it ... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.
— Brandon Lee
When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'
— Jan Hutchins
Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.
— Richard Harris Barham
My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
— Bill Paxton
I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
— Juan Manuel Marquez
My father did advertising photography.
— Andreas Gursky
We didn't like each other when you were alive," I muttered to my father. "You think living in my head is going to change that?
— Devon Monk
If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.
— William Shakespeare
Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place.
— Christina Aguilera
When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.
— Chelsea Clinton
My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.
— Ziggy Marley
I wonder if my kidnappers know who my father was in Haiti, or if they know what powers they are dealing with.
— Marc Ashton
I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies.
— Rochelle Aytes
If I were a real Creek View girl, the kind Josh liked, I'd be hammered right now, not thinking about my dead father.
— Heather Demetrios
My father was in charge of managing the farm.
— Julia Child
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
— Andre Dubus III
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and they all had pugs.
— Brigid Berlin
Father God, fill my heart with Your love so that I may pass it on to friends and strangers. Amen. - MARION BOND WEST
— Various
Heavenly Father, I will reason; I will will; I will act; but guide Thou my reason, will, and activity to the right thing that I should do.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.
— Jeff Raikes
If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I'm very sure,
— Samuel Butler
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
— A. N. Wilson
If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.
— Apolo Ohno
Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.
— Amor Towles
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
— Magic Johnson
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
— Lincoln Steffens
It was the first time in years I didn't wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.
— Ally Carter
Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.
— Jim Gaffigan
I'd once overheard my daddy tell my momma that the six Winston boys had inherited their father's ability to charm snakes, the IRS, and women.
— Penny Reid
I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.
— Chad Michael Murray
My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.
— Hermione Gingold
My father is a very strict man.
— Nneka
I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'
— Emo Philips
I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.
— Guy Pearce
That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.
— Markus Zusak
I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.
— Alexa Ray Joel
My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.
— Bre Pettis
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.
— Carol Vorderman
There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
— Marat Safin
My future is always plural. It is always about my mother and my father and my aunties and my sister.
— Daisy Hernandez
My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
— Tamara Ecclestone
My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures.
— Alice Hoffman
People ask me, do I ever disagree with my father? It would be a little strange if I didn't.
— Ivanka Trump
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
— Pete Rose
My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
— Sherman Alexie
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
— Pat Conroy
My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.
— Norman Wisdom
My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
— John Major
My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties.
— Anton Du Beke
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
— Steven Spielberg
My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.
— Jared Kushner
This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.
— George Bernard Shaw
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
— Caroline Kennedy
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
— George Steiner
I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.
— Sebastian Pinera
My father had gifted us both with a package of suspicion that sat like a teeth-baring watchdog in our minds.
— Tarryn Fisher
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.
— Peter Fonda
I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.
— Bill Cosby
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.
— Craig Ferguson
I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.
— Walter Mosley
They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.
— Martin McGuinness
It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him.
— Marcel Proust
My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
— Kaniehtiio Horn
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
— Carly Simon
My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.'
— Gwendoline Christie
And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.
— Angelina Jolie
My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.
— Sara Maitland
Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
— Cheryl Hines
If my father hadn't exactly disappointed me, he remained something unknown, something volatile and vaguely threatening. My
— Barack Obama
People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"
— Matthea Harvey