Father Quotes

"If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me"

Charlie Hunnam, Actor

"Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

"When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer"

Will Smith, Actor

"My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child"

Antonio Villaraigosa, Politician

"By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb"

John Pearson, Theologian

"Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem"

William Petersen, Actor

"My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes"

Bram Cohen, Scientist

"That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all"

August Strindberg, Dramatist

"Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature"

Harold Coffin

"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins"

Clara Barton, Public Servant

"In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?"

Max Muller, Educator

"My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better"

Marlo Thomas, Actress

"What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"I wanted to grow up to be just like my father"

Michael Bergin, Actor

"America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us"

Patti Davis, Celebrity

"He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother"

Derek Luke, Actor

"I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy"

Bob Lilly, Athlete

"I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come"

Amar Bose, Inventor

"God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom"

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Writer

"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted"

Voltaire, Writer

"Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars"

Victor Hugo, Author

"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"An angry father is most cruel towards himself"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

"My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own"

H.G. Wells, Author

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