Father Quotes · Page 82

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.

— Columba Bush

My father is a hotelier in Karnataka. There're no actors in my family.

— Sudeep

Dads are the leaders in their homes, and our kids need leaders.

— Greg Schiano

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day

— Alan Ladd

My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.

— Isaac Hanson

“My father doesn’t have views. He would like to, but he can’t take the risk.”

— Hilary Mantel

I watched my mom suffer from a divorce where she depended on my father.

— Ashley Roberts

I remember my father saying that you're about to awaken when you dream that you're dreaming.

— Willard Huyck

“My father, always the most indulgent among us, but also the most observant, had figured the cauboi out. “É un timido, he’s…

— André Aciman

I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like…

— Jesse Metcalfe

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where…

— Chaka Khan

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

— Ken MacLeod

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers…

— Ron Paul

My parents migrated to Phoenix, AZ, in the '80s, and I watched them work tirelessly to provide for me and my siblings…

— Opal Tometi

There is a chapter in 'Gentle Regrets' called 'Coming Home' which is really me expressing my later admiration for my father's public…

— Roger Scruton

My parents divorced when I was 18 months old. They haven't always been the best of friends, but they were good at…

— Jacob Anderson

My father didn't compete ever in martial arts tournaments because they were not real. They were tag tournaments or touch tournaments, which…

— Shannon Lee

Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it…

— Martin Amis

Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is that…

— Sonu Nigam

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better…

— Thomas Steinbeck

If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold,…

— Gloria Steinem

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands,…

— Anonymous

Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth…

— Ilan Stavans

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible…

— Sandra Cisneros

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

— Ziggy Marley

My mother is a teacher, and my father is a chief marine engineer.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

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

— Linda Evans

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

— Ellen Muth

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

— Mark Twain

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

— James Levine

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Todd Boss

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

— Brian Dennehy

Sean Combs is the person whom I look up to and appreciate as a father.

— Quincy Brown

Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.

— William Langland

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

— Beau Bridges

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

— Mark Twain

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

— Nick Mason

My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am.

— Ava DuVernay