Father Quotes · Page 152

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

— Anthony Kiedis

I think my personality is a very big reflection of what my dad's personality is.

— Tyrese Haliburton

Growing up with my dad taught me to either lie like a pro or not bother.

— Tammara Webber

I would definitely say I have my head on straight, but that's due to my parents.

— Davante Adams

How are you gonna grow up without a father, then have a kid and not be supporting your kid...

— Anonymous

My father had a garments business in Delhi which shut down.

— Anupriya Goenka

A happy family needs a loving and caring father, and he who knows how to be a mother sometimes.

— Anonymous

Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil…

— Vicki Sue Robinson

My father never left my side; on the street, on the beach, he was always with me. He helped me on the…

— Rivaldo

Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then…

— Bertrand Russell

Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the…

— Debbie Reynolds

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot…

— Lasse Hallstrom

My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became…

— Bre Pettis

By virtue of who we are, what we know, the promises we made to our Heavenly Father, and the fact that we…

— Sheri L. Dew

I grew up in the mining village of Dudley in Northumberland. My father, who was also called Robson Green, worked down the…

— Robson Green

Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial…

— James Ellroy

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix…

— Shia LaBeouf

My mother wrote a teen column for the South China Morning Post in the 1950s when she was growing up in Hong…

— Celeste Ng

The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake,…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though…

— Karan Johar

I do enjoy the fact that we don't have a king or queen; we have a person with a very unusual temp…

— Aaron Sorkin

I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day…

— Larry Fitzgerald

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

— Ernest Hemingway

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

— Ray Bradbury

No word makes me happier than the word "daddy" when it's directed to me.

— Michael Josephson

I'm not a great father and there have been many occasions, when I fall short, but I'm genuinely trying.

— Rahul Dev

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

— Barack Obama

[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.

— Princess Diana

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

— Anna Godbersen

“In this world, the most wonderful place to be, is in the guiding care of our loving Heavenly Father.”

— Karen Gibbs

I idolized my father, especially as a young boy. He was bigger than life. He commanded the room.

— Lorenzo Lamas

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.

— Ben Mendelsohn

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

— Elizabeth McCracken

My father was a tea planter and I grew up in different parts of Assam as his job took him there.

— Victor Banerjee

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

— Chris Hayes

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

— Susan Straight

My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.

— Anoushka Shankar