Father Quotes

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."

My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.