Father Quotes

"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us"

Barbara Mandrell, Musician

"Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill"

Michael Reagan, Radio host

"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family"

Philip Levine, Poet

"My father loved people, children and pets"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father"

Scott McNealy, Businessman

"If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him"

Brian Lumley, Writer

"When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?"

Sam Levenson, Author

"Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there"

Robert Cormier, Author

"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him"

Amy Sedaris, Actress

"I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"The most important influence in my childhood was my father"

DeForest Kelley, Actor

"I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear"

Harpo Marx, Comedian

"My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money"

Warren Beatty, Actor

"And my father, after all, was a nationalist"

Heinrich Mann, Novelist

"My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike"

Jacky Ickx, Celebrity

"You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room"

Warren Jeffs, Criminal

"I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin"

Virginia Madsen, Actress

"As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me"

Christine Keeler, Model

"The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'"

Dinah Shore, Actress

"I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking"

Todd English, Celebrity

"My father taught me how to substitute realities"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns"

Mary Antin, Activist

"Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing"

Dinah Shore, Actress

"I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him"

Halle Berry, Actress

"My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair"

June Jordan, Writer

"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in"

Peter Fonda, Actor

"My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

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