Father Quotes

"Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!"

"My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them"

Daniel Smith, Politician

"But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer"

James Cameron, Director

"My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"My father felt that children should make their own way"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything"

Josef Albers, Artist

"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material"

Jerry Stiller, Comedian

"My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father"

Peter Fonda, Actor

"I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!"

Peter Fonda, Actor

"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"I have patterned myself after my father and God"

Adam Petty, Celebrity

"I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us"

Sonia Braga, Actress

"As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life"

Lee Haney, Athlete

"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant"

June Jordan, Writer

"You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son"

Michael Reagan, Radio host

"And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated"

David Dinkins, Politician

"My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was"

Lasse Hallstrom, Director

"My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things"

Steve Case, Businessman

"Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing"

Fred Ward, Actor

"I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father"

Donald Cargill, Clergyman

"My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think"

Warren Zevon, Musician

"Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting"

John Hume, Politician

"He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame"

June Carter Cash, Musician

"In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali"

Wilt Chamberlain, Athlete

"I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case"

Allen Boyd, Politician

"I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on"

Patti Davis, Celebrity

"I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"

Cassandra Wilson, Musician

"I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more"

Courtney Love, Musician

"One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too"

David Duchovny, Actor

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