Father Quotes

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

"She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else"

Anne Bronte, Novelist

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

Carly Simon, Musician

"My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

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

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'"

Cary Grant, Actor

"And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"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, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time"

Sam Houston, Politician

"My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show"

John Sebastian, Musician

"My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer"

John Sebastian, Musician

"But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody"

Kid Rock, Musician

"My father was a writer and an acting teacher"

Noah Hathaway, Actor

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

Kid Rock, Musician

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"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

"Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass"

William Congreve, Poet

"A poet is the father of a nation, and the mother is its language"

Ismail Kadare, Novelist

"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

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