Father Quotes · Page 197

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

I always looked up to my mother. My father was never around.

— Cedric Alexander

He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.

— Saint Augustine

People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.

— Tom Hanks

My father Kakabhai Haribhai Shroff was an astrologer.

— Jackie Shroff

I rather be a single father, raising on my own. I'd hate to be a 'part-time' dad.

— Anonymous

“Don't you call me ‘Dad.’ You are no son of mine. I wouldn't father an abomination. You”

— Nat Kozinn

My father always kept me in a very different world, a very simple world.

— Maurizio Gucci

I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my…

— Michael Douglas

If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up.…

— Noah Wyle

Like Barack Obama's father, Trump's mother was an immigrant. But Trump doesn't often bring up his Scottish ancestry on the campaign trail.

— Mary Pilon

At times some may think that no one cares--but someone always cares! Your Heavenly Father will not leave you to struggle alone,…

— Thomas S. Monson

I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of…

— Max Lucado

My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I…

— J. R. Martinez

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide…

— Walter Scott

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of…

— Keegan-Michael Key

To mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders…

— Mark Sanchez

“Today's television sitcoms...the father is typically depicted as a clumsy buffoon, an inane and even unnecessary appendage. In creating that caricature, producers…

— Robert L. Millet

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

You don't need too much to have an agenda of how to father. You just have to be a good person. The…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the…

— Betty Smith

I had a friend who got pregnant at age 14 and wasn't quite sure who the father was. Her paternity test went…

— Kate Madison

She thought, "He whom I love more than my father or mother, he of whom I am always thinking, and in whose…

— Hans Christian Andersen

My dad provided me with a great way of life, and he was very charitable man.

— Jason Bonham

My father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong.

— Jorge Posada

Totally different challenges, but being a dad and fighting both wear you out.

— Chuck Liddell

I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

— Vincent Cassel

“my father obsesses over everything current and cool to the point he can karaoke to Gaga,”

— Rachel Higginson

“You are mistaken if you consider this a criticism, either of my father or the houses.”

— D.J. Waldie

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

— Mason Cooley

You Tell I'm Just Like My Father, My One Button, You Push It , Now It's

— Drake

I come from a business family. I rebelled from my father to become a musician.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

— Donny Osmond

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

— Nick Park

My name is an Italian name because my father is an Italian and my mother is Indian.

— Dino Morea

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

— Bill de Blasio

I always had a work ethic. And I think I very much got that from my father and my mother.

— John Waters

My father was proud that people thought I was a good actress. I'm the only child. And daddy's girl.

— Ann-Margret

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

— Michael Reagan