Father Quotes · Page 103

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

— Alan Valentine

I think my father is nearly perfect. I think he's quite handsome, except a bit fat.

— Gina Rinehart

“My father was a difficult man. But he was also a good one.”

— Veronica Roth

“When these words release my hand they go away, they all go away to look for the father.”

— Ricardo M. de Ungria

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

— Harrison Ford

My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.

— Royce Gracie

Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.

— Bill Vaughan

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father…

— David Duchovny

“Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure…

— Bob Ney

When I heard him speak at the DNC [in 2004] I started supporting him. Then I endorsed him on the anniversary of…

— Malaak Shabazz

Between 1965 and 1980, my mother, Frances Junod, served cutlets of pale flesh - mostly veal and chicken, though sometimes pork -…

— Tom Junod

It's not who you are, but whose you are that counts. Because God is your heavenly Father, doors of opportunity will open…

— Joel Osteen

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was…

— Dave Brubeck

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in…

— Karen DeCrow

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult…

— Trevor Nunn

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti…

— Emma Thompson

As Latter-day Saints we must ever be vigilant. The way for each person and each family to guard against the slings and…

— Spencer W. Kimball

My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It…

— Don Ameche

I feel like there's this misconception that immigrants come here and just don't care about the system and paying taxes, and that's…

— Diane Guerrero

The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

We see the worth and appreciate the discipline my father inculcated in us.

— Geeta Phogat

In fact, my dad has a significant role to play in shaping my opinions and value system.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

My father is an actor as well, so I used to look to him.

— Brian Gleeson

My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.

— Gary Shteyngart

My father was a scientist, and I grew up in his laboratory. Maybe I am like him, but he is not like…

— Hope Jahren

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

— Virginia Woolf

I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton

— John le Carre

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

— Anonymous

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

— Greg Norman

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

— Dick Cavett

I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

— Joan Jett

My parents made me who I am. They are kind, generous, loving people.

— Danny Welbeck

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

— Vernon Jordan

Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?

— William Blake

That's the most fulfilling thing I've experienced ever, being a father.

— John Isner