Father Quotes · Page 81

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

— Dominic Chianese

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

— Albert Ayler

I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.

— Ram Charan

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

— Joe Buck

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

— Jordan Peele

My father was a musician, so I feel like falling into this career was a bit inevitable.

— Dua Lipa

“My father used to say the seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.”

— Joe Abercrombie

Yes, I always looked forward to becoming a father soon after our marriage.

— Nikitin Dheer

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

— Bat for Lashes

I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to…

— George Edward Moore

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,'…

— Ed Koch

What people can't possibly imagine is what it's like to have two presidents who have a relationship as father and son.

— George W. Bush

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

— Steve Garvey

I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.

— Thomas Steinbeck

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could…

— N. Scott Momaday

“I looked at the faces around me, wondering what was going to happen to me ... wondering when I would see Father…

— M.L LeGette

The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York,…

— Chelsea Clinton

I had a tremendous upbringing and foundation but as others like me have experienced, when you go to college, mom and dad…

— Aaron Kampman

I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me…

— Whitfield Diffie

Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one who wants so much to…

— Robin Marantz Henig

Oh! how should all hearts be taken with this Christ? Christians! turn your eyes upon the Lord: 'Look, and look again unto…

— Isaac Ambrose

“You’ve already said that,” Alex says. “Why should I go?” “You’re the only person I have,” I say. “And I want us…

— Kaui Hart Hemmings

Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern…

— Carlo Wolff

My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I…

— Richard Clayderman

He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.

— George Martin

My father was a keen photographer; he had his own darkroom.

— Grayson Perry

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

— Prevost Abbe

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

— Jan Blachowicz

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Charley Pride

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

— Gordon Ramsay

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

— Giordano Bruno

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

— Gerardo Campbell

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 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

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

— Jackky Bhagnani

“He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.”

— Melina Marchetta

I was introduced to the game by my father, Tommy, when I was 11.

— Jimmy White