Father Quotes

• It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Remember
  • Father

• My mother had a master's degree and had been a schoolteacher before she started having kids at 30. But my father's family were landowners, farmer-merchants. Moneymaking was extremely important, like one of those semi-rapacious families in Lillian Hellman, where they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  

  Allan Gurganus
  • Important
  • Family
  • She

• I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Father
  • Girl

• My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.

  

  Marya Hornbacher
  • Good
  • Together
  • Mother

• My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • People
  • Father
  • Justice

• The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Up
  • Responsibility
  • Son

• My father's not the type of person that teaches you by saying, 'Come here, son. I'm going to tell you about real estate.' You learn by watching it. If you don't pick it up, it's your problem.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • Up
  • Real
  • Son

• The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Free
  • Succeed
  • Essentials

• I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

  

  Joe Davis
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of my books for pounds 500.

  

  Emma Tennant
  • Mother
  • Leaving
  • Greek

• I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.

  

  Ellen Pompeo
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Boyfriend

• Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Father

• I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.

  

  Lisa Lutz
  • Happy
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • People
  • Live
  • America

• How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Violence

• If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Live
  • Son
  • Betrayal

• When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'

  

  Betty Williams
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Dad

• Father drove fifty miles each evening behind his spanking team of horses to keep his date with the Southern girl - carefully chaperoned by FOUR maiden aunts.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Father
  • Girl
  • Team

• If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • God
  • Women

• Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

  

  Alafair Burke
  • Father
  • Reading

• From the time I was in first grade or so, my dad collected 'Star Wars' toy figures from the 1970s and '80s, and we'd take weekend family trips to antique shops and to toy stores. My father collected a crazy amount of 'Star Wars' stuff over the years, and he and I traveled to many conventions.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dad

• I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • People
  • Father

• Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Want
  • Responsibility
  • Human Impulse

• When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

  

  Bertrand Piccard
  • Father
  • Ocean

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