Father Quotes

"Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture"

Walter Salles, Director

"My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking"

James Cagney, Actor

"People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue"

Martin Short, Actor

"Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area"

David Guterson, Author

"One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country"

Walter Salles, Director

"My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not"

Dorothy Fields, Musician

"My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife"

John Lithgow, Actor

"I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set"

John Malkovich, Actor

"There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that"

John Malkovich, Actor

"It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'"

Ellen Muth, Actress

"I did the cover of Cigar Aficionado, so I'm supposed to talk about loving cigars. I've smoked them a couple of times. My father used to smoke cigars. I love the idea and the concept, and I love the smell of cigars"

Gina Gershon, Actress

"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid"

Dorothy Malone, Actress

"Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life"

Anjelica Huston, Actress

"Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book"

Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist

"My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather"

Albert Finney, Actor

"I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person"

Jean Dujardin, Actor

"Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him"

Charles Peguy, Philosopher

"My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life"

Magnus Carlsen

"My father always said, 'You can be funny and make people laugh without being mean or negative.' I always took that to heart"

Kevin Nealon, Actor

"He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it will be until I can find the answer, but I don't know if there is one"

Julian Lennon, Musician

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