Father Quotes · Page 102

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

— David Beckham

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

— Gerard Depardieu

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

— Carly Simon

I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.

— Alessandro Michele

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

— Meryl Streep

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

— Leah Ward Sears

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

— Woodrow Wilson

From my father's side I got the strength, the mental toughness, the heart, the courage.

— Mariano Rivera

Chose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him.

— Richard G. Scott

My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with…

— Sara Maitland

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

— Q'orianka Kilcher

My father was a big influence. He kept telling me to pursue football, always. He always encouraged me and my brother.

— Riyad Mahrez

My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything…

— Bernice King

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

— Ken MacLeod

“Who had he been? A failed father, a runaway husband. A son. A packet of unopened letters. He was dead; he was…

— Anthony Doerr

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in…

— Mario Cuomo

My father was released from jail, after more than three years of imprisonment, in 1971. Without wasting any time, he wanted to…

— Radha Ravi

“I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width…

— Phillippa Gregory

The father-son thing, that's a separate thing. This film [Forsaken] was not about that. This was a film about two actors wanting…

— Kiefer Sutherland

I would say my relationship with my father has had a bigger impact on me than I knew. Even with the things…

— Rihanna

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence…

— George Catlin

I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life:…

— Emiliano Salinas

My father was a taxidermist, not a run-of-the-mill profession for a West Indian immigrant. Having given up on becoming a vet, he…

— David Lammy

“We may never speak about this again. But I hope you’ll never hold it against me that we did. I will have…

— André Aciman

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

— Ray Conniff

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

— Aaron Paul

I didn't want to work with my father. I wanted to see if I could develop my own career.

— David Lauren

I don't look anything like my mother, except when I'm Lafayette. I look like my father.

— Nelsan Ellis

I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8.

— Kerry Kennedy

I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.

— Mark McKinnon

In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

— Pope Francis

The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family.

— Steve Fowler

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

— Diane Lane

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

— Harrison Ford

Like beekeeping for our father, making movies has entered our lives in a totalizing way.

— Alice Rohrwacher

My father did not do a film for me or launched me, he wanted us to do things on our own.

— Javed Jaffrey

When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.

— Gladys Taber

My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.

— John Carter Cash

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

— Don Marquis

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

— Oscar Wilde