Father Quotes · Page 155

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

— Mukesh Ambani

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

— Amitabh Bachchan

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.

— Park Geun-hye

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a…

— Lois Greiman

The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy.

— John Lamb Lash

“If there's a perk to having such a fucked up father, it's that he's in no position to judge.”

— Jonathan Tropper

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

— Wynton Marsalis

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

— Anonymous

That's one of the reasons I be more happy about my accomplishments than anything else because of how proud my mom and…

— GloRilla

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father…

— Jack Wagner

To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but…

— William Shakespeare

Being a godly father requires much perseverance and prayer as we seek God's guidance in being the types of fathers He wants…

— Jonathan Falwell

From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

— Luke Bryan

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

— Jayne Mansfield

He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like…

— Steven Hall

I don't think there's any doubt, I love my kids. But I'm certainly not perfect, not even close. But I try to…

— Rex Ryan

“This child was well muffled up in a pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and…

— Victor Hugo

“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand…

— George MacDonald

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord,…

— Leo Tolstoy

When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way…

— Mike Huckabee

I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made…

— Jack W. Szostak

I remember, as a child, a particular groan that my father would sound when he crawled from the bed in the morning.…

— Kevin Barry

My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved…

— Mel Giedroyc

The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the…

— Richard Rodriguez

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

— Saadi

I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

— Mason Cooley

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries

— John Cleese

All the kids looked up to my father because he was known to be that dude who knocks people out.

— John Singleton

“Tory a father isn’t supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being said, you terrify me.”

— Kathy Reichs

I grew up in a single-family detached house. My parents are wonderful.

— Wendy Williams

My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.

— Steve Harvey

The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

— Vanessa Hudgens

Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.

— Mark Batterson

My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.

— Victor Cruz

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I had good parents, and even though they weren't around, they were always an influence on me.

— John Rzeznik

“He [my father] wasn't as bad towards me as he was to mum. Just absent.”

— John Larkin

My father is genuine and frank. I don't have to say that, because everybody knows it.

— Varun Tej

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

— Meryl Streep

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

— Benedict Cumberbatch