Father Quotes · Page 183

I've heard, 'You're not your father.' Well, you're right. I'm not. We've had two different careers.

— Joe Buck

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

— Albert Ayler

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

— Dominic Chianese

My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.

— Oscar Taveras

Phil is my father. He's a part of who I am. But I don't want to be defined by that.

— Travis Knight

Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.

— Pam Brown

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

— Julian Casablancas

My Father, it is surely a blue place And straight. Right. Regular.

— Gwendolyn Brooks (b 1917

My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give…

— Shirley MacLaine

It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is…

— Tony Dungy

Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love…

— Kami Garcia

My father was really into yoga, and back then, it seemed like we were really the only ones who knew about yoga.…

— Mandy Ingber

My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we…

— Frank Moore Cross

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it…

— Vince Cable

I've been using Pearl for so long, ever since I was a kid. Same thing with Paiste. They have both taken such…

— Joey Jordison

Jesus Christ who was of the race of David, who was the Son of Mary, who was truly born and ate and…

— Ignatius of Antioch

My father never cheated on my mother. He used to cheat on me. He used to pick other kids after school. Take…

— Dom Irrera

Verily has man freewill to control his actions. That my Father-Mother has given to man as his inheritance. But the control of…

— Walter Russell

As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it…

— John Lithgow

I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the…

— Alan Lightman

“I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's…

— Marisha Pessl

There are new studies showing that young men and men with more progressive views of what a father should be - which…

— Brigid Schulte

You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround…

— Brendan I. Koerner

All the movies that my father has produced have some or the other connection with me.

— Jackky Bhagnani

I am more like my mother, but I have my father's last name and I cannot do anything about it.

— Sooraj Pancholi

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

— Tom Hooper

My Stepdad may not have given me life, but he sure has made my life better.

— Gerardo Campbell

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

— Giordano Bruno

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

— Gordon Ramsay

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

— Charley Pride

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

— Barbara Kingsolver

It's a hard job, you know? I prefer to fight. Fighting is easy, being a father is much harder.

— Jan Blachowicz

“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”

— Prevost Abbe

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.

— Brian Dennehy

“I swear we'd lose our hearts if they weren't with elastic and butterfly pin clasped safely in.”

— Todd Boss

Every father says the same thing: “Where's your mother?”

— Bill Cosby

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

— James Levine

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

— Mark Twain

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

— Linda Evans