Father Quotes · Page 184

Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.

— Rainn Wilson

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

— John Milton

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.

— Sean Lennon

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

— Khaled Hosseini

I'm exceptionally open with my own parents, and they're exceptionally open with me.

— Claire Danes

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

— Martin Short

“There are three things a man must do before he dies: plant a tree, father a child, and write a book.”

— Rick Skwiot

I'm never more encouraged than to hear someone talk about how eerie it is that I move like my father.

— Michael C. Hall

Dad never really got over Jack's death and was deeply inspired by his brother throughout his life to delve deeper into his…

— John Carter Cash

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live…

— Ludwig Bemelmans

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to…

— Alanis Morissette

For many dads, pride is often defined by events like graduations, weddings or taking their sons to their first match.

— Robbie Savage

My granddad was a very humble person but still, to take all that time of his life to take care of me…

— Ruben Dias

After working with my father for two years, we started Candie's, a line of imported shoes from Italy. Then in 1982 I…

— Kenneth Cole

Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.

— Saint Francis de Sales

“As I inch forward to embrace my life again by being mindful, writing books, and planning adventures, I sense my dad would…

— Lisa J. Shultz

In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself…

— Susan Shreve

Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as…

— Carmen Kass

“Hmm. Relationships between fathers and sons can be notoriously difficult, especially for two men who are as different as you and your…

— Lynn Austin

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware…

— Charles Dickens

An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come…

— Wovoka

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so…

— Agatha Christie

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my…

— Benjamin Franklin

It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.

— Haley Reinhart

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

— Galeazzo Ciano

I would visit my father and spend the summers with him in the south of France.

— Yasmin Aga Khan

I'm just looking forward to a great fight and just to keep making my dad proud.

— Michael Chiesa

This New Years, I'm going to party like Maury just told me I'm not the father!

— Anonymous

I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time.

— Max von Sydow

Is ur father a soldier coz your a bomb and you kill me girl.

— Banks

I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“I used to think my father had been assigned to us by the government.”

— Akhil Sharma

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

— Dwayne Johnson

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

— Natasha Trethewey

“Every broken child will have a hardcore corner of a devilish father or mother in his mind!”

— Fahad Basheer

My parents have always taught me to be myself and to follow my instincts.

— Kaia Gerber

My dad was a fabulous role model. I wanted to be just like him.

— Bart Starr

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.

— Marcel Carne

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

— Amy Klobuchar