Father Quotes · Page 145

I am a husband, son and father, a reader, a traveller, a fan, and also a cook.

— Prakash Raj

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

— Hugh Leonard

After 2012, I wanted to stop, but my father told me I had to play the World Cup. I tried to be good.

— Samir Nasri

The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.

— Jon Stewart

I'm a very secretive person. That's how I grew up. My father was very secretive.

— Isabelle Adjani

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

— Jeb Bush

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

— Robin Morgan

Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.

— Max Lucado

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

— Nat Hentoff

We didn't always have cable growing up in Louisiana. In raising three kids, having every channel available wasn't much of a priority…

— Ryan Clark

When you're a dad you get guys who say 'I don't change nappies' but really and truly everyone changes nappies.

— Dereck Chisora

Besides my father, who used to be a footballer at the local level, it is Messi for whom I started to play…

— Hima Das

My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything…

— Gareth Bale

The Bush administration has apparently approved a plan to oust Saddam Hussein. I think that's President Bush's Father's Day gift to his…

— Jay Leno

“It’s strange, but when your father has gone you suddenly discover that the choices you have made were as much for him…

— Jo Nesbø

My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to…

— Eddie Mathews

“If I learned anything from thinking about my father, it's that there is a force in the world that doesn't want us…

— Donald Miller

When you grow up in a family where you have lost a parent, everybody joins together to instil the correct values in…

— John Torode

There you are!” he shouted at them. “Father has half the castle turned out looking for you.” “Us?” Hadrian asked. “Yes.” Fanen…

— Michael J. Sullivan

One winter, when I was 12, my older brother Frank (20) said to my father, 'We want you out of the house.…

— Joe Torre

My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't…

— Ziggy Marley

Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told…

— Odysseas Elytis

My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman.…

— Robert J. Shiller

When I was young, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something…

— Ishmael Beah

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

— Paige VanZant

“When your earthly father fails you, your heavenly Father finds you.”

— Jenna Lucado

I am really thankful for my step dad, for taking on this father role.

— Anonymous

Most pro bodybuilders have bad relationships with their fathers. We want to prove something.

— Lou Ferrigno

My father died and left me, my poor mother done the best that she could.

— Robert Johnson

A father is not someone who puts pictures up online, but has not seen them in five years.

— Anonymous

My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.

— Mike McCue

My mother was a stay-at-home mum and my father was an RAF pilot.

— Esme Young

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

— Shahrukh Khan

His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

— Kim Edwards

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

— Jean Paul

My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.

— Sridevi

My dad is always looking out for what's best for me.

— Nick Bosa

“Shetani akikupa hela chukua. Hiyo hela ameiiba kutoka kwa Baba. Ukishaichukua, toa zaka.”

— Enock Maregesi

People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.

— Thom Yorke

It's very difficult to overtly do it. But I try to live my life consistently as a man and as a father.

— Dwane Casey