Father Quotes

"To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach"

Ludwig Bemelmans, Author

"What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities"

Alan Thicke, Actor

"I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress"

Laura Linney, Actress

"And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly"

Evelyn Underhill, Writer

"I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased"

George Steinbrenner, Businessman

"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them"

Dominic Chianese, Actor

"In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin"

Danny DeVito, Actor

"My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing"

George Kennedy, Actor

"So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me"

Dick Dale, Musician

"Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works"

Shahrukh Khan, Actor

"We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father"

Dinesh D'Souza, Author

"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age"

Joel Coen, Director

"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood"

Marc Davis, Artist

"From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress"

Koichi Tanaka, Scientist

"At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention"

Jhumpa Lahiri, Author

"My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me"

Giovanni Ribisi, Actor

"My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful"

Kim Wilde, Musician

"You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids"

Herschel Walker, Athlete

"Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood"

George Takei, Actor

"My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical"

Georges Rouault, Artist

"My father was an all-American football player"

Edwin Moses, Athlete

"Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published"

Dick Bruna, Artist

"My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up"

Bobby McFerrin, Musician

"I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father"

Esai Morales, Actor

"All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job"

Jensen Ackles, Actor

"My father was something of a rainbow-chaser"

Marc Davis, Artist

"Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's"

Desmond Dekker, Musician

"My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother"

Broderick Crawford, Actor

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