Father Quotes · Page 162

“The thing is, my father has about as much rhythm as a drunken octopus […]”

— Mark Peter Hughes

“Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt of a service.”

— Jeane Westin

That moment when she tells you that your the father and you go up stairs to pack your bags and she says

— Anonymous

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

— Lupe Fiasco

My father was a very humble and down to earth man, and was known for being very honest and trustworthy.

— Wissam Al Mana

“You can't experience the Father's embrace until you first embrace your earthly father's experience.”

— Bob Parr

My dad wouldn't even start the car until he heard the click of every seat belt.

— Drew Lachey

I'm a good dad and a fair husband, and I work quite a bit.

— John Schneider

He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we…

— Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

“She tried not to think of her father, once a brief inmate of those twenty-foot-high, three-foot-thick crenellated walls. Now”

— J.T. Ellison

My father moved to Belgium to play in the first division. He was a very good player, someone I looked up to,…

— Andreas Pereira

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in…

— Bill Cosby

I was raised in a very, very loving household. I had quite unusual parents, and my father has always been my hero.

— Roxie Roker

As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and…

— Sidney Poitier

My father worked three jobs, my mother worked two, seven days a week sometimes. And they wouldn't take welfare or social assistance,…

— Bill Duke

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

— Michael Gove

I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he…

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth…

— Marie Curie

Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of…

— Archilochus

It was not surprising …that [my father] should seldom have long seasons of agonizing prayer such as some have experienced, for His…

— Paul Bearer

“A smile is hidden beneath the mustache, it crinkles the corners of his hooded eyes. “I didn’t. I have other business in…

— Gwenn Wright

I have been extraordinarily fortunate in my life, luckier than almost anybody on this planet. And whenever I ran into challenges, my…

— Joe Kennedy III

“I didn’t like my father all that much,” said the admiral. “But before he died, he gave me a piece of advice.…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

— Pink

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

— Jonathan Winters

“The tiny share we have of time appalls me, though my father seems to regard it with tranquillity.”

— Alice Munro

My beauty icon is the love between my mother and father.

— Stella Maxwell

My father was a banker, and my mother worked for the state government.

— Urmila Matondkar

O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.

— Emmeline B. Wells

Mum worked in telecommunications and Dad was a mechanic.

— Monica Galetti

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

— David Alan Grier

If you don't know the advantage of a women, go and ask your father.

— Anas Alobobo

Our parents have always encouraged us to be independent and dream big.

— Jenna Bush

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

— Jim Rohn

My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.

— Rufus Wainwright

I'm from a family of scarily ambitious women: pity my father.

— Maisie Peters

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

— Sienna Miller

I didn't meet my father until I was in the fourth grade.

— Katie Cassidy

I got that sense of travel and adventure from my father.

— Charley Boorman