Father Quotes

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'

To every little girl her father is a hero.

My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed!

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him.