Father Quotes · Page 628

She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman…

— Jennifer Grant

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far…

— Wallace Stegner

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd…

— Mona Simpson

I have my mother's nose and my father's bone structure, which I've passed on to my children. My eldest daughter and my…

— Gavin Esler

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

— Jeff Bridges

Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that…

— Sarah MacLean

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.

— William Caxton

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all…

— Chief Joseph

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

— Malala Yousafzai

I don't think my father wanted to be a dad.

— Erika Jayne

I've played many games for Iceland and my father before me, so I have a sense of what football means to people…

— Eidur Gudjohnsen

If you serve a mission faithfully and well, you will be a better husband, you will be a better father, you will…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

It's very difficult to overtly do it. But I try to live my life consistently as a man and as a father.

— Dwane Casey

When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's…

— Frederick Buechner

If you can convince me that we are one in this sense, that you are my father, and I your son; and…

— Joseph Bates

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here…

— Richard Dean Anderson

A soul that is nurtured by hatred toward man can not be at peace with God, Who has said: If you forgive…

— Maximus the Confessor

My father worked in a toy store. He used to give toys to the head of police when he would shop for…

— Haim Saban

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.

— Carrie Fisher

My father was very confrontational and an intellectual bully. My mom was a peacemaker who wanted to make everyone comfortable.

— Rick Owens

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

— Pam Brown

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

— Aaron Paul

My father was a bullfighter.

— Paz Vega

Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee,…

— John Milton