Father Quotes · Page 116

She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.

— Kim Edwards

My father used to celebrate all festivals like Eid, Diwali, Holi, Christmas, etc. with great gusto.

— Shabana Azmi

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer.

— Laurie Simmons

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

— Walter Salles

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

— Robert South

“My father loved the attention, I noticed. He really was a bit of a fame whore.”

— Caitlyn Duffy

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

— Trisha Goddard

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

— Laurence Steinberg

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

— Stephen Colbert

He's always with me; I'm always asking. He can be my father, or he can be my coach, or he can be…

— Son Heung-min

If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that…

— Scott McNealy

Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music…

— Rokia Traore

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child,…

— Malaak Shabazz

When I was a kid, I dreamt of being a runner. My mother and father always told me to go after what…

— Dutee Chand

I'm a horror movie fan; I'm an avid fan and have been since I was five years old. My father and I…

— Lauren Ashley Carter

Children leave... and parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your…

— Fred Savage

Cuban agents are assigned to a Catholic Church where their instructions are to beat, jail and intimidate the Ladies In White that…

— Marco Rubio

I was 19 years when I got into acting training classes at a TV station and then I found a way to…

— Tony Leung Chiu Wai

I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America…

— Caroline Kennedy

In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals… The familybecame a special…

— Kenneth Keniston

Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is…

— Groucho Marx

I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family…

— Aubrey Plaza

“A mother is the person who takes care of you when you're sick. The one who holds you when you're afraid. The…

— Kat Attalla

I've always known that I wanted to be an actor. My family kind of was a theatrically inclined family. My father came…

— Peter Vack

Our Heavenly Father created the universe that we might reach our potential as His sons and daughters.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I think only thing gonna stop me from this party lifestyle is me becoming a father.

— Anonymous

My dad was an ironworker and my mom retired from our public schools.

— Ben Ray Lujan

My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.

— Chuck Berry

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

— Louise Brown

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.

— W. G. Sebald

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

— Umberto Eco

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

— Nick Lachey

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

— Matt Damon

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

— Dan Brown

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.

— Anne Lamott

It was much easier for me to endure the belittling than it was to watch my dad get belittled.

— George W. Bush

My parents are really supportive of everything I do.

— Amber Liu

I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.

— Renato Dulbecco

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

— Richard Flanagan

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

— Lawrence Welk