Father Quotes

"My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her"

"I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend"

"It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also"

Clancy Brown, Actor

"When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago"

Louis Leakey, Scientist

"When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that"

Jake Roberts, Celebrity

"My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father"

Missy Elliot, Musician

"You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys""

Harmon Killebrew, Athlete

"Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended"

Lactantius, Author

"I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please"

Jim Lampley, Celebrity

"It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father"

Jeanne Tripplehorn, Actress

"That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke"

Miroslav Vitous, Musician

"My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick"

Mickey Spillane, Author

"I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father"

Jules Feiffer, Cartoonist

"My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania"

Herbie Mann, Musician

"Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation"

Frederic William Farrar, Theologian

"The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it"

Shmuel Y. Agnon

"I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney"

Alex O'Loughlin, Actor

"I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot"

John Fahey, Musician

"What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it"

Dexter S. King

"When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination"

Moses Mendelssohn, Philosopher

"My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have"

Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady

"I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

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

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here"

Dorothy Dunnett, Novelist

"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff"

Dominic Chianese, Actor

"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps"

Dick Gregory, Comedian

"The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half"

Shmuel Y. Agnon

"I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough"

Andrew Taylor Still, Scientist

"They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father"

Andre Braugher, Actor

"My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators"

Edwin Moses, Athlete

"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count"

Dave Van Ronk, Musician

"It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband"

Ismail Merchant, Producer

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