Father Quotes · Page 97

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

— John C. Maxwell

I've heard, 'You're not your father.' Well, you're right. I'm not. We've had two different careers.

— Joe Buck

I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.

— Ram Charan

“My father used to say the seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.”

— Joe Abercrombie

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

— Jordan Peele

My father was a musician, so I feel like falling into this career was a bit inevitable.

— Dua Lipa

Yes, I always looked forward to becoming a father soon after our marriage.

— Nikitin Dheer

He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.

— George Martin

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics…

— Saul Alinsky

While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological

— Judd Nelson

Father's Day is important because, besides being the day on which we honor Dad, it's the one day of the year that…

— Jimmy Fallon

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him…

— Patti Davis

Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned…

— Max Anders

“But Father Time is real. And, in truth, he cannot age. Beneath the unruly beard and cascading hair—signs of life, not death—his…

— Mitch Albom

If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I take my drive from…

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

I came from more of a football background. My mother and father loved football and I was the one, my brother and…

— Jade Cargill

Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all…

— Reynolds Price

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My father, Norman Mailer, expected a lot from us and he really pushed us and you know one of his favorite lines…

— John Buffalo Mailer

Siddhant has received a perfect upbringing from his mother and it's up to me now to continue on the same track. But…

— Rahul Dev

I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is…

— Basil Bunting

My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an actor. But…

— Sherri Shepherd

There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure…

— Thomas S. Monson

My father was a keen photographer; he had his own darkroom.

— Grayson Perry

Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.

— Pam Brown

My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.

— Oscar Taveras

Phil is my father. He's a part of who I am. But I don't want to be defined by that.

— Travis Knight

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

— Dominic Chianese

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

— Albert Ayler

Love for father, mother, sisters and brothers are from divine and always have sympathy for them.

— Anonymous

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

— Arnold Palmer

My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.

— Stephen Chbosky

I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

— Jack White

It means everything. Making my father happy, that's my biggest joy.

— Simeon Rice

For even in hell I still have faith, to one day be free with my father at the gates.

— Kid Cudi

As was shown in 'Soorma,' for me, my father and brother have been my heroes.

— Sandeep Singh

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

— Anonymous

I have a very close relationship with my father. We're in no way estranged.

— Sean Murray

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

— Michael J. Fox