Father Quotes · Page 179

Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.

— Rosalind Wiseman

I was raised by my mother. My father died when I was 15. He was just 41.

— Toto Wolff

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

Father' is such an arbitary word. Douche bag, on the other hand...

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I've already put my parents through the wringer with a number of my jobs!

— Ari Graynor

I promised myself to be a better father to my kids then my dad...

— Anonymous

I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.

— Suzanne Collins

I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

— Marcus Samuelsson

I grew up thinking that I could be anything I wanted to be in this world because my mom told me that…

— Gretchen Carlson

There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.

— Michael Jackson

“Be real with Father and resist the urges to crawl back into your shell and silently endure lifelessness.”

— Jake Colsen

“Now you have fulfilled your function as an unfortunately necessary father and breadwinner, you are not needed any longer and you must…

— August Strindberg

I have played quite a few roles almost double my age. I don't regret those decisions and feel proud to have been…

— Shefali Shah

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

— Sebastian Horsley

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration…

— Paul Begala

Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room…

— Ally Carter

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Like most men, my father is interested in action. And this is why he disappoints my mother when she tells him she…

— Deborah Tannen

Father Mapple paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed…

— Herman Melville

If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be…

— Anonymous

When I was 7, I told my dad I want to have a house like Micheal Jackson's one. And then he said…

— Cristiano Ronaldo

My father always would say, "My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister", but it's not what I…

— Benazir Bhutto

Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven be happy…

— Jonathan Edwards

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

— Joan Jett

My parents made me who I am. They are kind, generous, loving people.

— Danny Welbeck

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

— Greg Norman

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

— Dick Cavett

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

— Anonymous

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

— Virginia Woolf

I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton

— John le Carre

Here is a little tip for all of you. Don't come out to your father in a moving vehicle.

— Kate Clinton

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.

— Ozzy Osbourne

I grew up in Carol City, Zone 3, for 19 years, in a house with four brothers, a mother and a father.

— Denzel Curry

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

— Christopher Meloni

“I'd like to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary.”

— Victor Borge

I get a text every day from my dad: 'Enjoy the challenge.'

— Jill Ellis

There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.

— Jake Owen

“My father, Vincent, a rumpled Bohemian who had followed his”

— Michael Korda

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

— Vernon Jordan