Father Quotes

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

Becoming a father isn't difficult, but it's very difficult to be a father.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.

I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

I want to be a soldier as my father was.

My father used to say, 'Well, Ann, maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.'

I took after my father.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I loved my mother and father.

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.