Father Used Quotes

My father used to say I would inherit his house but not his seat.

— Ali Bongo Ondimba

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

— Marianne Moore

When I was young my father used to play. He always took me to the training ground.

— Thomas Partey

“My father used to say, “a day spent breathing is a good day”

— Raymond E. Feist

My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.

— Chuck Palahniuk

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

— Jason Statham

My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.

— Richard Elman

My father has a great voice. My father used to sing... just sing.

— Marvin Gaye

My father used to run a shop in Sadar Bazar in old Delhi, and most of my time would go spending days…

— Gulzar

My childhood was full of Salil Chowdhary, R.D. Burman and Madan Mohan sahab. My father used to play with them and I…

— Jeet Gannguli

My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’

— Steve Sabol

My father always used to ask me what my aim in life is. I used to tell him I don't have any.

— Vijay Sethupathi

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

— Richard Leakey

I remember my father used to beg for a loan to buy a house. He had to beg the banks for a…

— Sudha Chandran

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there…

— Annalena McAfee

“Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.”

— Amor Towles

My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage…

— Karl Rove

I think I was only five years old when 'Aashiqui' happened. And I remember very faintly that my father used to bring…

— Tulsi Kumar

We had nothing in hand and my father used to live on the street. The profession of acting happened to him when…

— Javed Jaffrey

“My mom could't fix me, but I remember she'd pet my back, and I know Julians father used to rub his head.…

— Robin Roe

“After a moment, he added more seriously: 'I don't get as angry as m'father used to about things. Or maybe I', just…

— Jennifer Paynter

“And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he…

— Marcus Aurelius

As an actor, it's a very strange adjustment to start playing the father. I was used to playing a kid my whole…

— Kerr Smith

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie…

— Bruce Nauman

“Always have a purpose,' his father used to tell him. 'Act like you're heading someplace purposeful, and none of the low-life will…

— Anne Tyler

“You were not really in the area,” she says now. “You look just like your father used to look when he lied…

— Jodi Picoult

“I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war…

— Margaret Atwood

My father used to beat me with his belt...while it was still on him.

— Zach Galifianakis

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

— Phyllis Diller

My father used to say, 'Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.'

— Abhishek Tiwari

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

— Desmond Tutu

My father used to take off his belt and give me a crack. And I'm all right.

— Sean Hannity

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

— Adam Sandler

My father used to give me a lot of advice.

— Paolo Maldini

My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.

— Jim Carrey

“We can’t control what happens to us,” Streng said, recalling something his father used to say. “Only how we react to what…

— Jack Kilborn

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

— Cary Grant

My father used to see God in human beings and in his work. Each person has his own way.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at…

— Marianne Moore

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

— Abraham Lincoln