Father Quotes · Page 18

Dad has had a great following over the years.

— Chase Elliott

Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.

— Clarence Darrow

My dad has always been the bohemian.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

My father was a man of few words.

— Ken Venturi

“Spank me father for I have sinned.”

— L.B. Shaw

My parents have always been very supportive.

— Jessica Williams

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

— Rand Paul

I was always somebody's son or somebody's father.

— Jack Hemingway

I did not become a father because I am fond of children.

— Thales

“I don't trust her father than I can run full-steam in a corset.”

— Libba Bray

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

— Don Marquis

“Have you met thy Lord, my son? Have you been dead before, father?”

— Toba Beta

Abraham Lincoln was the father of a nation and had enormous beliefs that stood well.

— Henry Kaufman

Thank you to my parents for giving me the American dream.

— Sofia Kenin

My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.

— Bob Menendez

My father fought alongside Aussie and U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War.

— Anh Do

My father always encouraged me to do whatever I wanted, providing I was happy. He wanted me to go to school, but…

— Gino D'Acampo

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath…

— Sydney J. Harris

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

— Salman Rushdie

Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to…

— Michael Wolff

I was born in a temple to a priest father, in a place like Benaras. So, my upbringing has been influenced by…

— Ravi Kishan

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about…

— Alice Walker

My father has been targeted for persecution by the Turkish government and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, because of his association…

— Enes Kanter

Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're…

— Groucho Marx

The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father…

— Anonymous

My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was…

— Bonnie Bedelia

Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.'…

— Anonymous

If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a…

— Tony Abbott

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want…

— Jeff Bridges

The hero of the beloved Star Wars trilogy is Luke. The principle dynamic is the complicated relationship between Luke and his father.…

— Cass Sunstein

It is history that has distorted our lives and complicated issues. The good thing is; whether we like it or not, a…

— Femi Kuti

“I look at my parents the way mothers look at their toddlers. I take every chance to witness them undisturbed. To study…

— Kamand Kojouri

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

— Philip Yancey

My parents were strict but loving.

— Ann Dowd

Nobody else could train me like my father could.

— Shane Mosley

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

— Heinrich Mann

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

— Gloria Swanson

My dad can shoot pretty good from outside.

— Al Horford

“That’s your first helping,” his father responded.”

— John Burley

My father was an architect.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell