Father Quotes · Page 67

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

— Eunice Kennedy Shriver

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

— Tom Jones

My dad being not the greatest dad in the world has made me a better parent.

— John Daly

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

— Hugh Leonard

My father was a tricycle driver before, then he became a farmer and a fisherman.

— Hidilyn Diaz

My father taught me to love Flamengo, which has always been my second home.

— Zico

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

— Gene Tierney

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

— Aristotle

My father, Aparesh Lahiri, was a musician too, and at a very young age, I was geared up for a career in…

— Bappi Lahiri

I think a lot of my shyness and non-athleticism came because I didn't have a father to instill those in me.

— Chuck Norris

Donald's ego has been and is a fragile and inadequate barrier between him and the real world, which, thanks to his father's…

— Mary L. Trump

Everything they do, from smiling to crying, feels like a blessing. Being a father feels amazing. This has been the most spiritual…

— Ricky Martin

My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx…

— Thomas Steinbeck

I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is…

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Between my freshman and senior years of high school in the late '90s, my father spent his evenings, weekends and vacations drilling…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to…

— John Ciardi

With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the…

— Alan Lightman

God never punishes his children in the sense of avenging justice. He chastens as a father does his child, but he never…

— Charles Spurgeon

Like any classic you hope to get rid of all the varnish that's built up over the centuries where people expect it…

— Geoffrey Rush

“And before long, the music, the views rushing past the window, my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into…

— Orhan Pamuk

Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying,…

— Timothy Keller

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?…

— William Blake

My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once…

— Clara Shih

“A shabby looking old man was walking their way. It must be a relative of one of the men, wandering in the…

— Kate Williams

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

— Max Cannon

I've always seen kids with parents who were still together as quite posh.

— Sara Cox

Fatherhood is the best thing that ever happened to me.

— Matt Barnes

“There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

My parents have supported me everywhere I've went: U.K. to Japan, NXT.

— Finn Balor

My father, Beric, ran a joinery business and owned two factories.

— Toyah Willcox

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.

— Rashida Jones

The biggest validation comes from my parents, because they know me in and out.

— Vicky Kaushal

Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

— Candace Parker

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

— Amit Kalantri

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

— Franny Billingsley

My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'

— Vincent Cassel

He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.

— Benny Green

“My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six.”

— Alan Alda