Father Quotes

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

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.

This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.

I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'