Father Quotes · Page 132

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

— Barbara Kingsolver

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

— Gordon Ramsay

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

— Giordano Bruno

My Stepdad may not have given me life, but he sure has made my life better.

— Gerardo Campbell

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

— Tom Hooper

I am more like my mother, but I have my father's last name and I cannot do anything about it.

— Sooraj Pancholi

All the movies that my father has produced have some or the other connection with me.

— Jackky Bhagnani

My Father, it is surely a blue place And straight. Right. Regular.

— Gwendolyn Brooks (b 1917

I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have…

— Bill Nighy

My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think…

— Missy Higgins

I am very happy for the respect shown towards my father, Raj Kapoor-ji, the greatest showman of Hindi cinema.

— Randhir Kapoor

I'm a father now. I got to man up and be the best father I can be, which means I have to…

— Danny Garcia

As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked…

— Michael J. Fox

I think at the end of the day, the way my father looks at it is if the script is solid, if…

— Zayed Khan

Is making a movie true love if you're a creative person? It could be. But in my world, the importance of being…

— Robert Stromberg

Never forget two people in your life… The person who lost everything just to make you win. [your father] The person who…

— Anonymous

My agents were like "Come to L.A., we've got meetings for you." I was like "No, I'm doing this now." Then my…

— Olivia Williams

I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My…

— Ken Stott

One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use…

— Ergun Caner

What is the best advice, business or otherwise, you've had and from whom? The best advice I've received came many years ago…

— Paul Allen

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family…

— Samuel Johnson

Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household,…

— Sarah Dessen

My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to…

— Christine Ebersole

We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared…

— Diana Gabaldon

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

— Julian Casablancas

“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”

— Prevost Abbe

It's a hard job, you know? I prefer to fight. Fighting is easy, being a father is much harder.

— Jan Blachowicz

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

— Ellen Muth

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

— Linda Evans

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

— Mark Twain

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

— James Levine

Every father says the same thing: “Where's your mother?”

— Bill Cosby

“I swear we'd lose our hearts if they weren't with elastic and butterfly pin clasped safely in.”

— Todd Boss

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.

— Brian Dennehy

“He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.”

— Melina Marchetta

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.

— Columba Bush

My father is a hotelier in Karnataka. There're no actors in my family.

— Sudeep

I was introduced to the game by my father, Tommy, when I was 11.

— Jimmy White

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day

— Alan Ladd

My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.

— Isaac Hanson