Father Quotes · Page 85

I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'

— Tahj Mowry

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.

— Greg Behrendt

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

— June Jordan

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

— Louis Gossett, Jr

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

— Oscar Wilde

I started on the beach in Santa Barbara with my father when I was six.

— Karch Kiraly

My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!

— Spike Milligan

The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.

— Ellen Hopkins

[CNN, USA Today] they've got 24 hours to fill. You know, how many times can Anna Nicole Smith's baby get a new father?

— Jon Stewart

“You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with…

— Carew Papritz

“Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls…

— Habeeb Akande

My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills.…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father…

— Aliko Dangote

When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a…

— Steve Blank

My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over…

— Pete Docter

There are many important elements to being a parent. A lot of people don't have fathers but they might have someone in…

— Liv Tyler

“I don’t tell him I hate him yet. Maybe I never will. I don’t know what good it would do to let…

— Colleen Hoover

In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that…

— Amish Tripathi

If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I…

— Lynn Johnston

I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of…

— Daniel L Dreisbach

I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of…

— Adam Clayton Powell, Jr

I remember when I was a kid, my father saw an ad somewhere for 'real simulated diamonds' and he was chuckling and…

— Patti Davis

My father used to play ice hockey, though not at a high level, and my mother wasn't involved in sport at all,…

— Karolina Pliskova

I was very lucky to have a father who took me to church.

— Ser'Darius Blain

“What makes a man is not the ability to have a child but having the courage to raise one.”

— Obama Barack

My dad, especially, has let me do my own thing and make my own mistakes.

— Ananya Panday

My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

— Hisham Matar

Of course, fatherhood fundamentally changes a lot of your life, but it enriches you, too.

— Richard Ashcroft

This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

— Mark Wahlberg

I don't think my dad ever raised his voice to my mother or to me, ever.

— Bobby Knight

“I’m sure. I do not need to hear about my ‘frisky’ father.”

— Shelly Laurenston

Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground.

— Thomas Boston

Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.

— Jennifer Grant

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.

— Treat Williams

I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different.

— Robert Lepage

I've inherited the quality of understanding good music from my father.

— Bhushan Kumar

My relationship with my dad was exceptional, being the youngest in my family. I was his favorite.

— Tulsi Kumar

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

— Darrell Issa

“Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.”

— Paul Asay