Father Quotes

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

~ Annette Funicello

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.

~ Angela Carter

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

~ Christie Hefner

My father loved people, children and pets.

~ Tony Visconti

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

~ Janis Joplin

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

~ Charley Pride

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

~ Mira Sorvino

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

~ John Lithgow

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

~ Simon Newcomb

I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.

~ Jake Owen

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

~ Christine Keeler

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

~ Michael Bergin

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

~ Prince Charles

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

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

~ Marc Davis

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

~ Broderick Crawford

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

~ Damon Wayans

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

~ Dinah Shore

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

~ Victor Borge

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

~ August Strindberg

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

~ Oliver Hudson

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

~ Tom Bosley

I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated me like his son. He gave me the best advice about singing, about this and that... He was a very sensitive man, very astute, one of the sharpest men that I ever met in my life.

~ Trini Lopez

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

~ Errol Flynn

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

~ Kent Nerburn

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

~ Anna Lee

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

~ Robert Bly

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

~ Margaret Turnbull

Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior, has suffered and paid for our sins and those of all the people we will ever meet. He has perfect understanding of the feelings, the suffering, the trials, and the needs of every individual.

~ Henry B. Eyring

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.

~ Bharati Mukherjee

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

~ Red Auerbach