Father Quotes · Page 149

My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people you're with.

— Mario Van Peebles

My father was just 9 when he started as a child actor in 'Afsana.'

— Javed Jaffrey

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

— Hippocrates

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

— Brad Pitt

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN.

— Freddie Gibbs

“My father would never object. He might make a face at first, then take it back.”

— André Aciman

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

— Henry Louis Gates

I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who…

— Tammy Duckworth

My son has a big Christmas problem - what do you buy for a father who has everything and you're using it?

— Milton Berle

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

— Abigail Adams

“Do you have any idea how humiliated I am to be related to such a man, much less to have to call…

— Josie Litton

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model…

— Art Alexakis

All I want to do now is meet someone, get married, have a big family, be a good father. I have never…

— Gethin Jones

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with…

— Margaret Atwood

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the…

— Josef Albers

When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine,…

— Rachel Vincent

My father died from a heart attack. He was the sort of person who wouldn't complain. The symptoms are not heavy -…

— Ray Fearon

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is…

— Theodor Herzl

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged…

— Louise Erdrich

I turned goalkeeper. My father had been one and we had a goal in the back garden. He'd taught me a bit…

— Simon Mignolet

Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to…

— St. Catherine of Siena

Grace comes immediately to meet some of those who strive, giving them assurance of the earnest of their inheritance (cf. Eph. 1:14),…

— Gregory Palamas

I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever…

— Don Shula

We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side.

— Brian Posehn

Being a father brings with it a lot of responsibilities, just like being a goalkeeper does.

— P. R. Sreejesh

“I can't believe I'm about to drink with my father- this is wrong on so many levels.”

— Wendy Higgins

My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

— Zaha Hadid

My father Apresh Lahiri and mother Bansari Lahiri were great composers of their time.

— Bappi Lahiri

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

— Ted Turner

I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

— John Henrik Clarke

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father

— Tony Randall

“not when Riko was to Kevin what Neil's father was to him.”

— Nora Sakavic

“Fatherhood is the greatest education a man can ever receive.”

— Asa Don Brown

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

— Dwyane Wade

“Watching us, our father seemed to age another ten years.”

— Anonymous

Even some men came into my life, my father is still number one man here in my heart.

— Innah Delos Angeles

There's probably no loss bigger than losing one's own father.

— Disha Parmar

“What you inherit from your father must first be earned before it's yours.”

— Goethe

Mental illness and depression are the reason why I no longer have a father.

— Caroline Calloway