Father Quotes

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

~ Vincent Gallo

I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me.

~ Dario Argento

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

~ Tim O'brien

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

~ Pierce Brosnan

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

~ Ted Turner

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

~ Jim Jeffords

Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.

~ Cai Guo-Qiang

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

~ Robert Orben

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

~ Susan B. Anthony

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.

~ Jonathan Dee

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.

~ Bernie Mac

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

~ Bharati Mukherjee

I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.

~ Inara George

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

~ Malala Yousafzai

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

~ Yakov Smirnoff

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

~ Deforest Kelley

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

~ Spike Milligan

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

~ Miguel Indurain

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

~ Eminem

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

~ Pete Rose

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

~ Pope John Xxiii

I just wish I could understand my father.

~ Michael Jackson

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

~ Ray Romano

Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!

~ Domhnall Gleeson

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

~ Adam Sandler

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

~ Halle Berry

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

~ David Rockefeller

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

~ Chief Joseph

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

~ William Hurt

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

~ Dusty Baker

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

~ Dolores Huerta

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

~ Sidney Poitier

My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true, they felt that way. As for my dad, I could not do anything wrong. So, if I did something wrong, I would put the blame on them, and he would shout at them.

~ Sonakshi Sinha

Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.'

~ Mike Birbiglia

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

~ Shah Rukh Khan

The child is father of the man.

~ William Wordsworth

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

~ Anthony Kiedis

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

~ Anaïs Nin

I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

~ Wayne Dyer