Father Quotes

"I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends"

Rita Dove, Poet

"Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children"

Ricky Skaggs, Musician

"My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting"

Lasse Hallstrom, Director

"My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition"

Matthew Modine, Actor

"My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries"

Lasse Hallstrom, Director

"Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses"

Marlo Thomas, Actress

"The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there"

Mike Weir, Athlete

"Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me"

Peter Fonda, Actor

"My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor"

Steve Case, Businessman

"People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday"

Peter Fonda, Actor

"Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess"

Mariah Carey, Musician

"A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'"

Lewis Black, Comedian

"Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him"

Linda Evans, Actress

"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them"

Mary Antin, Activist

"In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths"

Mary Antin, Activist

"The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders"

Paul Hoffman, Celebrity

"I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"My father started me singing in church"

DeForest Kelley, Actor

"I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work"

Ice Cube, Musician

"What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth"

Benny Hinn, Clergyman

"I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter"

Ted Demme, Director

"My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted"

Manfred von Richthofen, Aviator

"I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family"

John Prescott, Politician

"My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments"

John Hume, Politician

"My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues"

John Hume, Politician

"I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar"

Jackson Browne, Musician

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