Father Quotes · Page 107

My father is not that comfortable with children, but he's a terrific father for an adult.

— Christie Hefner

My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

“There's a difference between the words father and dad . And it's more than three words.”

— Sarah Dessen

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

— Anonymous

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. -Nesha

— Anonymous

Stath will definitely love his child. But he will also definitely be a horrendous father.

— Jamie Demetriou

When my father began playing for Led Zeppelin our family was living in a 14-foot trailer.

— Jason Bonham

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

— Katey Sagal

Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming…

— Anonymous

My father was a preacher so I wouldn't sing at all when he was around, but as soon as he locked the…

— John Witherspoon

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the…

— Twyla Tharp

Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story…

— Aaron Allston

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never…

— Zinedine Zidane

My father, Colin, and my brother, Chris, who is four years older than me, were a great help to me when I…

— Andrew Flintoff

The U.K. was extremely important to my father and continues to be a place of tremendous goodwill for my family and I.

— Rohan Marley

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you…

— Barack Obama

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Of all the memories I have of my father and of our relationship, none is warmer and more poignant than what happened…

— Justin Trudeau

I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy…

— Terry Crews

If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that…

— Arius

I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this…

— Karen Thompson Walker

So my mum bought a jacuzzi, and I was in there along with my father and my sister, when my mother decided…

— Russell Howard

“My prerogative as your father is to break the face of anyone who fucks with you. And I will, whether you like…

— Jasinda Wilder

The weirdest thing about me is that I like to walk around naked. I grew up walking around naked in my house.…

— Jennifer Lopez

Doctor, Doctor my baby is the image of his father Never mind just so long as he's healthy!

— Nikhil Saluja

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

— Aaron Neville

My mom is just incredible. She's delved into both the mother and father figure in my life.

— Devin Druid

Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.

— Charles Lindbergh

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

— Karl Kraus

My father filmed me all the time as a kid, and that's how I was first exposed to a camera.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

— Andy Serkis

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

— Aeschylus

The time a father feels most helpless is when he is unable tofulfil his own child's needs.

— Mak_786

“Forgive me, Father, when I don’t recognize Your hand at work in my life. —Daniel Schantz”

— Guideposts

I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

— Stanley Crouch

“Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.”

— Amit Kalantri

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

— Bruce Springsteen

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.

— Juan Pablo Escobar

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

— Thom Yorke