Father Quotes

"My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time"

Richard Gough

"When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy"

James Ellroy, Writer

"For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24"

Rachael Leigh Cook, Actress

"We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit"

Dixie Carter, Actor

"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside"

LL Cool J, Musician

"Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well"

Junipero Serra, Clergyman

"My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands"

Hermione Gingold, Actress

"And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know"

Vince Gill, Musician

"O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send"

Elias Hicks, Clergyman

"I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian"

Michelle Hunziker, Actress

"My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist"

John E. Walker, Scientist

"I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas"

Mary Crosby, Actress

"My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence"

Steve Largent, Athlete

"I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him"

Jake Roberts, Celebrity

"I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college"

Roma Downey, Actress

"I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it"

Roald Dahl, Novelist

"Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys"

Patricia Richardson, Actress

"My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took"

Lynette Fromme, Criminal

"I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist"

Dinesh D'Souza, Author

"My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher"

David Soul, Actor

"The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage"

Judy Davis, Actress

"Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins"

Major Taylor, Athlete

"The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic"

Dominic Chianese, Actor

"My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife"

Danny DeVito, Actor

"Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier"

Dick Dale, Musician

"Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools"

David Soul, Actor

"I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities"

David McCullough, Historian

"Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English"

Roald Dahl, Novelist

"But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations"

Patricia Richardson, Actress

"The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old"

Natalie Gulbis, Athlete

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