Father Quotes

"Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down"

Donny Osmond, Musician

"My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it"

Victor Borge, Musician

"He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red"

Method Man, Musician

"I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother"

Theodore Hesburgh, Clergyman

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

Harold Coffin

"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons"

Victoria Abril, Actress

"My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"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

"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

"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

"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

"I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension"

Michael Landon, Actor

"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