Father Quotes · Page 101

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

— Edward Tufte

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

— Alexander Pope

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.

— Calvin Trillin

The best moment in 'Masoom' comes when the boy tells him that he knows he's his father.

— Farah Khan

My father always told me that. "Nobody knows anything, so don't listen to anyone else."

— Scott Eastwood

It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

— Tim Hansel

I was in no way ready when my daughter was born. But I want to be a good father to her.

— El DeBarge

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

— Dan Savage

I come from a RSS family. My father was a strong supporter of the RSS, and he was a swayamsewak of the…

— Sushma Swaraj

“I asked Tyler what he'd been fighting. Tyler said, his father. Maybe we didn't need a father to complete ourselves.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father…

— Al Sharpton

I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father.…

— Michael Strahan

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

— Sarah Addison Allen

God has a father, a long-dead human being is the father of God, the human being who's imagination the myth came from.

— Steve Fowler

A Real woman allows a man to take care of his kids no matter what the relationship is with the father of…

— KM II

My father grew up in West Texas, in Lubbock, and I've got family here, and I grew up a Dallas Cowboy fan…

— Matt Cassel

The hardest thing which I've experienced is calling up my father, Rance Howard, who's a wonderful actor, and telling him I've had…

— Ron Howard

The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and…

— Tom Brokaw

The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all…

— Lon Chaney, Jr

I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch…

— Julie White

“They were married within a year and slotted themselves into their respective lifelong roles—my father was the lighthouse, my mother the keeper…

— Elan Mastai

I grew up in a town in France called Saint-Die, where there were many immigrants - Senegalese, Morrocans, Turks. My parents came…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of…

— Sadie Jones

A good father is a man who always bought your toys, before even considering buying his.

— Anonymous

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.

— Anthony Kiedis

Sadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell.

— Anonymous

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I don't even have photos of my father in my house. I don't allow anyone to put them up.

— Bharti Singh

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

— Steve Case

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.

— Hermione Gingold

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.

— Frank Pittman

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

— George MacDonald

It was clear that my father wanted us to work with him. I mean, it is a family company.

— Antoine Arnault

Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.

— Alex Pettyfer

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.

— Jennifer Aniston

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

— Gordon Bell

I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano.

— Simon Rattle

“I don't know what I'd do if this wouldn't go father. Jack off for eternity, probably.”

— Karina Halle

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

— Irving Bacheller