Father Quotes

"My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives"

James W. Black, Scientist

"Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make"

James Gandolfini, Actor

"He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing"

Anne Heche, Actress

"I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother"

John Lone, Actor

"I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me"

Anne Heche, Actress

"My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died"

Mary A. Ward

"Peace and not war is the father of all things"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me"

Matthew Modine, Actor

"Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist"

Michael Bergin, Actor

"It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him"

Jim Bishop, Journalist

"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery"

David Brainerd, Clergyman

"I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French"

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Actress

"I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief"

Julian McMahon, Actor

"I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers"

Jonathan Franzen, Novelist

"I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!"

Edward Carpenter, Activist

"IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere"

Edward Carpenter, Activist

"I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it"

Keith Miller, Author

"I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"My father used to say superior people never make long visits"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

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

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more"

Claude Chabrol, Director

"My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet"

Patti Davis, Celebrity

"My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination"

Cornel West, Educator

"Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Clergyman

"My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years"

Donna Mills, Actress

"And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher"

James Tobin, Economist

"After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training"

Charles Eastman, Author

"I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"Like father, like son, four years and this president is done"

Dick Gephardt, Politician

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