Father Quotes · Page 137

I lost my biological father at nine, but up until then, we celebrated Christmas and Easter too.

— Dia Mirza

“The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.”

— Joan Frances Casey

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

— Randy Harrison

Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . .

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.

— Elisabeth Elliot

I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.

— Evelyn Keyes

I'm just looking forward to a great fight and just to keep making my dad proud.

— Michael Chiesa

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

— Galeazzo Ciano

My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that…

— Kara Swisher

“And as for my father? No, he wouldn't ever walk through those gates; I now knew that. Whatever Thomas Stone had, wherever…

— Abraham Verghese

“My Father said to me!, take the broom and brake it...i did and he said take the bondle and brake it...oh u…

— Suprime

My dad, he was my role model - my mom died when I was three - and the way we honor our…

— Sixto Rodriguez

“That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the…

— John Steinbeck

I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he…

— Amy Poehler

I have tried to bring the family together. My father should have done it, and to some extent, I have succeeded.

— Claude Picasso

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break…

— Donny Osmond

My son understands a lot and he's pushing me really hard. He always tells me 'you need to win, you need to…

— Felipe Massa

We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a…

— Aldo Leopold

“Madison!” Bob’s head jerks up and he steps back three paces from me, and all the warmth that was him is suddenly…

— Tammy Falkner

The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with.…

— Meg Rosoff

The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for…

— Jennifer Grant

“Grasping the doorknob, Tengo turned around one last time and was shocked to see a single tear running down from his father's…

— haruki Murakami

I was not ambitious as a child. My father encouraged me to enter competitions and contests, which became very much part of…

— Laura Pausini

It's nine months before the election and Bush's poll numbers have fallen to the exact level that his father's poll numbers were…

— Bill Maher

I would visit my father and spend the summers with him in the south of France.

— Yasmin Aga Khan

It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.

— Haley Reinhart

“There are three things a man must do before he dies: plant a tree, father a child, and write a book.”

— Rick Skwiot

I'm never more encouraged than to hear someone talk about how eerie it is that I move like my father.

— Michael C. Hall

Im playn daddy to another ni--as daughter, dnt wrry even jesus never saw his real father…

— J Cole

Well I love my second mother and father they have been there for me. They are happy people and outgoing

— Jessica Mariee

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

— Anne Geddes

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

— Jackie Shroff

There were times people tried to get me to change trainers, but I stuck with my dad.

— Joe Calzaghe

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

— George McGovern

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

— Amy Klobuchar

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.

— Marcel Carne

My dad was a fabulous role model. I wanted to be just like him.

— Bart Starr

My parents have always taught me to be myself and to follow my instincts.

— Kaia Gerber

“Every broken child will have a hardcore corner of a devilish father or mother in his mind!”

— Fahad Basheer

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

— Natasha Trethewey