Father Quotes

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

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.

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.