Best Father Quotations
7648 Father quotes by 4179 unique authors
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Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was…
— Jeff Bridges
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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
— Albert Brooks
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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
— James Brown
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I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and…
— Dave Brubeck
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to…
— Kobe Bryant
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My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my…
— Steve Albini
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Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I…
— Sitting Bull
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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
— Sitting Bull
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I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
— Madeleine Albright
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
— Louisa May Alcott
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I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared,…
— Tim Burton
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Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.
— Steve Buscemi
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My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
— Alan Alda
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I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.
— Jeb Bush
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I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us…
— Jenna Bush
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You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional…
— Sophia Bush
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Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.
— Nolan Bushnell
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
— Samuel Butler
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his…
— Samuel Butler
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
— Yancy Butler
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To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is…
— Sholom Aleichem
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Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.
— Nicolas Cage
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My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.
— Nicolas Cage
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made…
— Nicolas Cage
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