Father Quotes · Page 107

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

— Toots Thielemans

I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.

— Stephen Colbert

I am blessed to have a father who longs/desires to be gracious & compassionate towards me.

— Anonymous

My father was in the navy and so while he was deployed soon after I was born we moved to Australia.

— Sean Murray

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.

— Ryan Reynolds

I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

— Roseanne Barr

“America—where we hate our fathers, love our mothers, and everyone is hung up on trying to be a man”

— Volatalistic Phil

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

— Kent Nerburn

I really felt that I had accomplished my goals in life. My first passion has always been to be a restaurateur, a…

— Guy Fieri

My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to…

— Arthur Rubinstein

One thing I had more than anything, I had love and support from my mum and dad. My mum used to say:…

— Joe Wicks

I lost both my parents, and it wasn't as hard as losing Paul, because you've got your whole life with them -…

— Shawn Crahan

We always talk about single mothers; the challenges they face. But the single father faces challenges as well.

— Michael Clarke

“If they bragged about their fathers when he was present, he would tell them, “We should not call a father a ‘father,’…

— Ibrahim al-Koni

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once…

— Isabella Rossellini

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the…

— Miguel de Cervantes

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I…

— Helen Gurley Brown

Guys who feel like it makes you a man to make babies, they're completely misguided. It makes you a man to be…

— George Pelecanos

There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's…

— Orhan Pamuk

Some people say that I need to take a break and relax a little bit, but basketball is all that I know.…

— Tobias Harris

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do…

— Jeff Bridges

Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one…

— Regina Brett

Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the…

— Charles J. Shields

And as husbands and fathers and brothers, we have to step up because every girl's life matters, every daughter deserves the same…

— Barack Obama

The world is not given by our fathers, but borrowed from our children.

— Wendell Berry

“The measurement of mourning: eighteen months for mourning a father, a mother.”

— Roland Barthes

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

— Mariah Carey

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

— Jeff Bridges

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

— Philip K. Howard

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote…

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

— Alessandro Del Piero

“I was thankful," said my father, "for the make-believe.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Why can't one stop being a son without becoming a father?”

— Philip Larkin

Dad has great ideas and I admire him as a politician.

— Akshara Haasan

Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema?

— Elvis Mitchell

My father, a good man, told me, 'Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it.'

— Erich Maria Remarque

My dad worked in a honey factory - we used to call him the honey monster' - and I worked there.

— Jonathan Bailey

“There's a difference between the words father and dad . And it's more than three words.”

— Sarah Dessen

“A father hurt by his son realizes how much he hurt his father!”

— I are

Now I'm his dad, I live for [my son]. I have a responsibility. It's a big responsibility.

— DJ Khaled