Father Quotes · Page 67

Growing up, I'd always visit boutiques with my father on the weekends.

— Antoine Arnault

I respect my dad, and he's amazing. He's my hero. He's the Beatles, man - or one of them.

— James McCartney

I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.

— Norah Jones

My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

— Hisham Matar

I was very lucky to have a father who took me to church.

— Ser'Darius Blain

My dad, especially, has let me do my own thing and make my own mistakes.

— Ananya Panday

“What makes a man is not the ability to have a child but having the courage to raise one.”

— Obama Barack

I started on the beach in Santa Barbara with my father when I was six.

— Karch Kiraly

Looking back, when I was fourteen, I aspired to... be the best believer, husband, father, businessman, and man of integrity that I…

— Steven Crowder

My father always fostered creativity, and he has always encouraged me and my mom and my sister to create things.

— Julio Torres

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

— Aasif Mandvi

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Before I got the desired effect in my voice, I trained in classical music under my father for several years.

— Himesh Reshammiya

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with…

— Jillian Michaels

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly…

— Kehinde Wiley

David knew that the very quality of his worship was not based on his own volition but on the object of his…

— Laura Story

I was very lucky to have a father who read to us when we were children. And he didn't just read books…

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and…

— John F. Kennedy

I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I…

— Alejandro Zambra

“Julia, is everything all right?” her father said in a raspy voice. “It’s three in the morning, m’ija.” “I’m sorry. I have…

— Sergio Troncoso

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

My father's first seven films were flops but he continued to work hard and was persistent and see where he is today.…

— Akshara Haasan

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

— Oscar Wilde

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!

— Spike Milligan

I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'

— Tahj Mowry

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

— Louis Gossett, Jr

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

— June Jordan

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.

— Greg Behrendt

I've inherited the quality of understanding good music from my father.

— Bhushan Kumar

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.

— Treat Williams

Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.

— Jennifer Grant

I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different.

— Robert Lepage

“I’m sure. I do not need to hear about my ‘frisky’ father.”

— Shelly Laurenston

I don't think my dad ever raised his voice to my mother or to me, ever.

— Bobby Knight

Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground.

— Thomas Boston

This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

— Mark Wahlberg

Of course, fatherhood fundamentally changes a lot of your life, but it enriches you, too.

— Richard Ashcroft