Father Quotes

"Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen"

"Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"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

"Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career"

Sam Ewing, Athlete

"You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything"

Carly Simon, Musician

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?"

Paul Simon, Musician

"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"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

"I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well"

Alexander the Great, Leader

"Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States"

Harry S. Truman, President

"I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

"There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role"

Liza Minnelli, Actress

"The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

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