Father Quotes

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

~ Dean Koontz

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

~ Enid Bagnold

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

~ Imelda Marcos

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

~ Robert Mapplethorpe

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

~ Tatum O'neal

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.

~ Frank Butler

My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.

~ Quentin Bryce

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

~ Brad Pitt

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

~ Joel Osteen

The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to playing cowboys is my father, Lloyd Bridges. When I was a little kid, I loved to dress up like a cowboy - put on the boots, hat, and walk around. He was in a lot of westerns, and my dad loved to ride.

~ Jeff Bridges

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

~ Bertrand Russell

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.

~ Tracy Morgan

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.

~ Shia Labeouf

I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.

~ Joan Rivers

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

~ Drew Barrymore

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

~ Michael Leunig

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

~ Peter Jackson

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

~ George Eliot

My father was a writer/director/producer, so instead of throwing a ball around, our bonding was going to see movies. And at an early age, I knew if I wanted to impress my dad, it was not going to be by throwing a ball real far.

~ Jason Bateman

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

I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.

~ Mahesh Babu

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

~ Diane Lane

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

~ Anthony Hopkins

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

~ Herbie Hancock

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

~ Adam Sandler

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

~ Gwyneth Paltrow

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

~ Publilius Syrus

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

~ Sean Penn

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

~ Chief Joseph

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

~ Cindy Crawford

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

~ Nick Cannon

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

~ Billie Joe Armstrong

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

~ Fred Allen

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

~ Jean De La Fontaine

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

~ Kiefer Sutherland

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

~ Robert Mapplethorpe

People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.

~ Giancarlo Esposito

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

~ Jay London

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

~ Camryn Manheim

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

~ Michael Reagan