Father Quotes · Page 200

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

— George Bernard Shaw

No better blessing than the responsibility of fatherhood.

— Stephen Curry

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

— Anna Lee

“Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.”

— John Green

My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.

— Yasmine Hamdan

Once, I lost my father and tennis helped me to go through that tough loss.

— Aryna Sabalenka

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.

— Nicole Krauss

My father was my hero. I can't say enough about him and everything he did for me and my family.

— Jean Smart

I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of…

— Sandra Cisneros

We're all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers…

— Joe Strummer

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

— Bertrand Russell

My father came to Britain in search of a better life. My aunts, uncles and cousins fled here in search of safety…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.

— Ben Miller

That's the beautiful thing about being a father for the first time; it has really made me get my concentration levels in…

— Sonny Bill Williams

I've been in love with basketball from the moment I shot my first shot, hanging out with my father. When I was…

— Danilo Gallinari

Playing in the big leagues while my father is still active is the biggest thrill of my life. I try to see…

— Ken Griffey Jr

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my Emmitt from the…

— Emmitt Smith

Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is…

— Frederick Buechner

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the 70s, Fathers Day to me was always a very…

— Art Alexakis

Between 1958 and 1963, I sold about 40 million records - to the shock of my mother and father because I was…

— Neil Sedaka

At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to…

— Paul Laffoley

I wonder if they realize how much I notice about them They probably haven't a clue because I never look at them…

— John Marsden

Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of…

— Karen Armstrong

My father always told me I like the ball more than I like playing soccer: since I was a young kid, I…

— Neymar

“He had a daddy, but he’d never get to know his father, and the knowledge of that pained me every day.”

— Isabella Starling

I've learned great lessons from my parents for things on the court and off. I really look up to them.

— Dwyane Wade

Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God

— Rick Riordan

He who strikes his father or mother his hand will grow out of the grave.

— Vikrant Parsai

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

— Al Roker

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

— Henry Cavill

“My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples. John 15:8”

— Beth Moore

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

My father, Orest, worked as a mechanic for the CNR and he got transferred to Dauphin from Winnipeg.

— Barry Trotz

My father is scariest person but also ……… . . . . but also the most caring person

— Satish Yo

There's not one second that I don't think about my dad.

— Cheryl Burke

My mother played guitar by ear, and all of us sang except my father, bless his heart.

— Keala Settle

One of my father's better tendencies is to take in human beings who have somehow been led astray.

— Cord Jefferson

Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.

— Nargis Fakhri

Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

— Margaret Turnbull