Father Quotes

Small: My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet
Rodney Dangerfield
"My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet"
Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian
Small: The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his abs
"The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless"
Anais Nin, Author
Small: I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more pr
Rodney Dangerfield
"I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof"
Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian
Small: Im very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor.
"I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society"
Kathleen Turner, Actress
Small: Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other
"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other"
Joseph Joubert, Writer
Small: If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses
Audrey Hepburn
"If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
Small: My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different,
John Dyer
"My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect"
John Dyer, Artist
Small: It doesnt matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was
Anne Sexton
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was"
Anne Sexton, Poet
Small: Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother
Germaine Greer
"Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother"
Germaine Greer, Activist
Small: He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant
"He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant"
George Martin, Producer
Small: It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures by this time, I have found sever
Alice Walker
"It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all"
Alice Walker, Author
Small: My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some mor
Pete Rose
"My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more"
Pete Rose, Athlete
Small: And my father didnt have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didnt have black quar
Willie Mays
"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball"
Willie Mays, Athlete
Small: I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more impo
"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured"
Dean Acheson, Statesman
Small: I grew up with an artist father, and my parents friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects wh
"I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example"
Jonathan Lethem, Writer
Small: I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to g
"I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare"
Barbara Mikulski, Politician
Small: We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in a
"We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me"
Meister Eckhart, Philosopher
Small: Theres so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. Ive got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by
Will Smith
"There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?"
Will Smith, Actor
Small: The North African mule talks always of his mothers brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in
Clifford Geertz
"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable"
Clifford Geertz, Scientist
Small: My father was always getting excited about something. Its genetically inside me somewhere
Nicolas Cage
"My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere"
Nicolas Cage, Actor
Small: My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a p
"My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order"
Andre Agassi, Athlete
Small: Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think Ive been a good father to all of them
"Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them"
Anthony Quinn, Actor
Small: Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her
"Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids"
Gilbert Hernandez, Artist
Small: My father used to run auctions. Hes now a singer in the Canary Islands
Jason Statham
"My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands"
Jason Statham, Actor
Small: I dont know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge
"I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out"
Garry Shandling, Comedian
Small: There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father
Denis Diderot
"There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father"
Denis Diderot, Editor
Small: The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children
Denis Diderot
"The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children"
Denis Diderot, Editor
Small: I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much
"I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much"
Anthony Quinn, Actor
Small: The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in w
Jean Paul
"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity"
Jean Paul, Author
Small: Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol
"Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol"
Bobby Darin, Musician
Small: George Burns was the father I never had
"George Burns was the father I never had"
Bobby Darin, Musician
Small: I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, h
"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me"
Laurence Sterne, Novelist
Small: And my dad, youre a great actor but youre a better father
Angelina Jolie
"And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father"
Angelina Jolie, Actress
Small: God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You kn
"God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered"
John Cleese, Actor
Small: The cross is the great paradox of Christianity. More than a few have tried to explain it as a kind of cosmic c
Pope Benedict XVI
"The cross is the great paradox of Christianity. More than a few have tried to explain it as a kind of cosmic child abuse perpetrated by God the Father on God the Son. But anyone who has ever loved knows that love is about sacrifice, and the cross is the ultimate sacrifice of love"
Pope Benedict XVI, Pope
Small: Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - hed have me put on a jacke
"Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film"
Ralph Fiennes, Actor
Small: It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father
"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father"
Pope John XXIII, Clergyman
Small: I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was ma
"I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed"
Thomas Goodwin, Clergyman
Small: I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement
"I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement"
Ted Turner, Businessman
Small: I was surprised by how much I like being a father surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid
"I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness"
Michael Zaslow, Actor