Father Quotes

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

"I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life"

"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

"I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around"

Black Elk, Leader

"And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father"

Black Elk, Leader

"But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth"

Albert Pike, Lawyer

"From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

"I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"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

"My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father"

Johnny Cash, Musician

"My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house"

Janis Joplin, Musician

"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

"Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger"

Joanna Southcott, Celebrity

"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"My father was often angry when I was most like him"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self"

Bede Griffiths, Clergyman

"I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"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

"I just wish I could understand my father"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor"

Bruce Willis, Actor

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

Ismail Kadare, Novelist

"My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me"

Immanuel Velikovsky, Historian

"I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

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