Father Quotes

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

~ Simon Van Der Meer

My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer.

~ Max Von Sydow

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

~ Roz Chast

If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

~ Forest Whitaker

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

~ Sloane Crosley

We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

~ Jeff Bridges

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

~ Elliott Abrams

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

~ Nick Cave

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

~ Lewis Black

You are the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the teacher and the guide for the soul that has been placed in your trust.

~ Debbie Ford

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.

~ Vin Diesel

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

~ Haruki Murakami

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

~ Steve Harvey

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

~ Zubin Mehta

My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and her running downstairs to go after it. I have no memory before that. I was 4. My father had a lot of girlfriends and my mother had a lot of boyfriends.

~ Mike Nichols

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

~ John Irving

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

~ Gordon Ramsay

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

~ Randi Weingarten

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

~ Chuck Close

My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.

~ Felicity Kendal

My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.

~ Ciaran Hinds

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.

~ Michael Nutter

You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.

~ Kim Edwards

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

~ Steve Case

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

~ Tony Visconti

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'

~ Archie Panjabi

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

~ C. L. R. James

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.

~ Saul Williams

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

~ Simon Newcomb

Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

~ Jacques D'amboise

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'

~ Dean Kamen

I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.

~ Robert Winston

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.

~ Swami Vivekananda

I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.

~ Mandy Patinkin

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

~ Alan Thicke

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

~ Coretta Scott King

I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo.

~ Ridley Scott

My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.

~ Ivanka Trump