Father Quotes

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it will be until I can find the answer, but I don't know if there is one.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.