Father Quotes · Page 73

My father was the kind of man who liked to hang out.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

— Patti Smith

I don't know whether I could ever match my father as a person, but as an actor I try to be like…

— Lorne Greene

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

— William Wordsworth

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

— John Sebastian

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

— Domhnall Gleeson

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.

— Frank McCourt

The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

— Michael Chabon

“I swear this is the truth: your father is a Norse god. Now, hurry. We’re in a twenty-minute parking spot.”

— Rick Riordan

To see your mother beaten by your father is something you never forget. It's horrific. When my dad was like that, I…

— Coleen Nolan

Experience is my biggest teacher in life. I lost my father at a very young age, that's what made me more mature.

— Sourabh Raj Jain

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have…

— Paul Robeson

The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a…

— Pele

I'm a typical Delhi girl. Professional parents, nuclear family. My father was in the navy. I've spent my whole life in government…

— Swara Bhaskar

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a…

— George Best

“A family man from Siberia As a father was very inferior But one operation Revised the situation And now he's Mother Superior”

— Spike Milligan

Had I not been an actor, I would have been counting cash at my father's restaurant or supervising activities in the kitchen.…

— Saqib Saleem

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love…

— Joseph Addison

We are not preaching the Gospel of a dead Christ, but of a living Christ who sits exalted at the Father's right…

— Henry Allen Ironside

It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me…

— Marlee Matlin

I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in…

— Pico Iyer

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not…

— Mary Stuart Masterson

'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously.…

— David Duchovny

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for…

— Derek Luke

Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.

— Nick Vujicic

My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

— Nat Hentoff

With my kids, I'm a little sappier than my father may have been.

— Joseph Stiglitz

I'm also a devoted father, and you see that side of me at the same time.

— Bill Goldberg

“You sure about that dad? Because he's done everything to me.”

— Richelle Mead

My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

— Jim Fox

“Herr Vogel from Heide Strasse. “Made all his money from his father. He throws it away on women”

— Markus Zusak

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

— Chief Seattle

We invest in real estate, equity shares, etc. My father takes care of it and my wife helps too.

— Ajinkya Rahane

My dad was my role model; he always did the right thing.

— Aaron Judge

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

— Chris Hemsworth

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

— Ludwig von Mises

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

— George Thorogood

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

— Roberto Benigni

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

— Quentin Crisp

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

— Pat Conroy