Father Quotes · Page 172

I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me.

— Justin Timberlake

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

— Patrick White

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

It's only after the first six months that it really becomes fun for dads.

— Tom Fletcher

“I'm telling you all of this because I'll never be your father, and you will always be my child.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I thought my father had forgotten about me. But I realised that he missed me as much as I missed him.

— Anh Do

My parents instilled a strong work ethic early on in my life.

— Richard M. DeVos

Dad is very hard working. I want to be like that. I just want him to be happy with my work.

— Prateik Babbar

“Striving to meet my father's expectations is like climbing out of quicksand: the harder I try to get to the top, the…

— Lac Su

Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.

— Phyllis Chesler

I had a wonderful home life. My parents are the ultimate, wonderful supporters, so there was never a moment where I felt…

— Colin Donnell

The belt will grow dust and sit on the mantelpiece, but it's not about the belt. It's about how I can be…

— Michael Chandler

And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a…

— John Connolly

My father was an odd stick. He was a member of MENSA and he was a uniformed yard cop for the Harvard…

— Orson Bean

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

— Tatum O'Neal

My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese.

— Lisa Jewell

In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature…

— Mary Cantwell

My father was a politician. My grandfather was a politician too, maybe it's an innate idea of representing people that we have…

— Eniola Aluko

When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is…

— Rosie O'Donnell

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel…

— Andrew Murray

My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with…

— Ronnie Montrose

I like to think I'm a night person, because that's my job, but now I'm a father of three. I'm trying to…

— Dave Matthews

First, draw off your hearts, because Jesus Christ, the Head, is risen and ascended upon high, and there sits at the right…

— Christopher Love

I was never a one-dimensional guy; I was always able to block shots, play defense, get rebounds, or drive, or pass. My…

— Danny Green

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

— Sean Penn

“I was so innocent then to the pain in the world, the pain a cruel father could cause”

— Anonymous

My parents, they were just really strict on things being perfect.

— Kenny Stills

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

— Michael Jackson

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

— Christine Keeler

My father had Parkinson's, though he actually died following a bicycle accident.

— KT Tunstall

When I die, I want to see Malcom X, Lumumba, my father, and I want to be able to look them in…

— Femi Kuti

Every girl may not be a queen for her husband. . . . . . . but shes always a princess for her Father !!

— AaRon_CcHan

I am an only child, so not only my father, even my mother is also very supportive of my career.

— Asin

You know, my dad, for sure, smacked me over the past few years when I was young.

— Bernard Tomic

My dad was actually my first mentor. Decent man, hard-working man, never missed a day of work plumber.

— Joe Maddon

My father was a pastor, my mother was the quintessential pastor's wife.

— Heather Headley

My mom was a bit more excitable, but my dad was the most patient man I've ever met.

— Joe Maddon

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

— Rudyard Kipling

Any man can make a baby but it take real man to be a father

— Tonycvbchicago

The day I stopped fearing my father was the day I could enjoy him.

— Marco Pierre White