Quotes on Father

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

Author: Victoria Abril

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.

Author: Dean Acheson

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.

Author: Jensen Ackles

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Author: Joseph Addison

My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.

Author: Andre Agassi

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

Author: Shmuel Agnon

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.

Author: Josef Albers

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

Author: Josef Albers

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

Author: Fred Allen

My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.

Author: Ralph Allen

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

Author: Philip Anderson

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

Author: Philip Anderson

My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.

Author: Kojo Annan

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Author: Kojo Annan

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.

Author: Mary Antin

In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.

Author: Mary Antin

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

Author: Guillaume Apollinaire

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Author: Desi Arnaz

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

Author: Leon Askin

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

Author: Rene Auberjonois

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

Author: Rene Auberjonois

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Author: Red Auerbach

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Author: Enid Bagnold

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

Author: Colin Baker

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Author: James Baldwin

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

Author: Honore Balzac

I have a Father's Day every day.

Author: Dennis Banks

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Author: Clara Barton

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Author: Georg Baselitz

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.

Author: Birch Bayh

Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Author: Don Baylor

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

Author: Alison Bechdel

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

Author: Glenn Beck

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

Author: Nicolas Bentley

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

Author: Michael Bergin

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.

Author: Michael Bergin

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

Author: Michael Beschloss

Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Author: Joe Biden

Doubt is the father of invention.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

Author: Lewis Black

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

Author: Honor Blackman

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

Author: Barry Bonds

Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.

Author: Lizzie Borden

Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.

Author: Lizzie Borden

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

Author: Lizzie Borden

I knew your father before you did, and I don't think he'd be too proud of what you're doing right now.

Author: Scotty Bowman

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.

Author: Ed Bradley

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

Author: Georg Brandes

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

Author: Andre Braugher

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

Author: Beau Bridges

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.

Author: Anne Bronte

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

Author: Thomas Brooks

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Author: Gordon Brown

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

Author: Dick Bruna

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

Author: Sitting Bull

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

Author: Augusten Burroughs

Becoming a father isn't difficult, but it's very difficult to be a father.

Author: Wilhelm Busch

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.

Author: Sophia Bush

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

Author: Frank Butler

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

Author: Nicolas Cage

I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father.

Author: Thomas Campbell

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

Author: Orson Card

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.

Author: Marcel Carne

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

Author: Edward Carpenter

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.

Author: Angela Carter

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

Author: Deana Carter

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

Author: John Carver

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.

Author: Steve Case

My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?

Author: Emanuel Celler

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

Author: Claude Chabrol

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.

Author: Wilt Chamberlain

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

Author: Whittaker Chambers

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

Author: Prince Charles

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

Author: Mary Chase

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.

Author: Dominic Chianese

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

Author: Jesus Christ

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.

Author: Madonna Ciccone

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Author: Diane Cilento

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

Author: Sandra Cisneros

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

Author: Sandra Cisneros

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Author: Phil Collins

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

Author: Ray Conniff

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

Author: Gordon Cooper

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.

Author: Jackie Cooper

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

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.

Author: Francis Coppola

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

Author: Pierre Corneille

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

Author: Pierre Corneille

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Author: Bill Cosby

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

Author: Bill Cosby

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

Author: Cindy Crawford

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

Author: Stanley Crouch

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.

Author: Mario Cuomo

I am sorry I could not see my father.

Author: Leon Czolgosz

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

Author: Roald Dahl

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Author: Roald Dahl

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

Author: Dick Dale

My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.

Author: Paula Danziger

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

Author: Paula Danziger

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

Author: Bobby Darin

George Burns was the father I never had.

Author: Bobby Darin

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

Author: Joe Davis

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

Author: Judy Davis

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

Author: Marc Davis

My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.

Author: Patti Davis

Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.

Author: Patti Davis

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

Author: Patti Davis

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

Author: Dan DeCarlo

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.

Author: Dan DeCarlo

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

Author: Danny DeVito

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

Author: Denis Diderot

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

Author: Vin Diesel

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

Author: Marlene Dietrich

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

Author: Placido Domingo

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

Author: Carol Duffy

I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this, no man will ever want you.'

Author: Cassandra Dunn

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

Author: Robert Duvall

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

Author: Lawrence Eagleburger

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

Author: Dale Earnhardt

Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.

Author: Dennis Eckersley

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

Author: Atom Egoyan

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Author: George Eliot

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

Author: Elizabeth Elizabeth I

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

Author: Lincoln Ellsworth

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

Author: Lincoln Ellsworth

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

Author: Eminem

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

Author: Richard Ernst

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.

Author: Joe Eszterhas

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Author: Euripides

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

Author: Harold Evans

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

Author: Linda Evans

My father was an agnostic.

Author: Jerry Falwell

He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex.

Author: Sarah Ferguson

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.

Author: Dorothy Fields

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Author: W. Fields

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.

Author: Albert Finney

This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate.

Author: Peter Fitzgerald

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

Author: Errol Flynn

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

Author: Peter Fonda

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

Author: Peter Fonda

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Author: Jean Fontaine

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

Author: Jim Fowler

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

Author: Jim Fowler

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.

Author: Jeff Foxworthy

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Author: Sigmund Freud

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.

Author: Lynette Fromme

I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed.

Author: Klaus Fuchs

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

Author: Annette Funicello