Father Quotes

Never, dear father, love can be,Like the dear love I had for thee!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Father
There is no greater nobility than offering one’s life to the nation and, Mr. President, your father offered his life so that this nation might be free.

Barack Obama
- Life
- Father
- Free

My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club. I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty since she died two months ago. My father thinks she was killed by her own thoughts.

Amy Tan
- She
- Mother
- Joy
Any brute will demand his right to be a law unto himself, beating his wife and his children as he pleases, and defend that right with his father’s rifle and think himself a patriot.

Kage Baker
- Children
- Law
- Wife
What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

Morten Tyldum
- Family
- Giving
- Enough
My family have been wool merchants since the 19th century. My first job, aged 18, was buying fabric from my father to produce and sell ties. But I was also at university in Milan.

Pier Luigi Loro Piana
- Family
- Job
- Father
I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

Arabella Weir
- Time
- Long
- Childhood
My house is full of paintings by my mother Pam. She was a fantastic, prolific artist but had no confidence in herself, thanks to my father running her down. They married during the war when she was 19 - she had planned to go to art school. But my father didn't want her to work, so she became a housewife.

Penny Junor
- Work
- School
- Art