Father Quotes

• My father became the technical advisor for 'The Desert Fox,' with James Mason as Rommel. They wanted an Aussie who had been in North Africa with the English, and found my father on the Pasadena police force.

  

  Jamey Sheridan
  • English
  • Police
  • Desert

• My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

  

  Mariano Rivera
  • Help
  • Father
  • Sick

• I didn't really have an interest in politics when I first entered the workforce. What I wanted to do was help people who grew up like me. When I was a kid growing up in Tucson, my father lost his job and we lost everything - including our home. We lived in an abandoned gas station for two years until we were able to get back on our feet.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an immigrant from Germany whose visa had expired and, for a year and change, was undocumented here in the U.S.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Mother
  • Father

• I am my father's daughter: I have his language, his expressions.

  

  Dinah Manoff
  • Father
  • Daughter

• 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

• My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.

  

  Bernice King
  • High
  • Father
  • Moral

• The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

  

  Louis de Bernieres
  • Proud
  • Military
  • Soldier

• Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Serious

• My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Night
  • Single
  • Morning

• I've lived in 11 states, but I'm not an Army brat. My father couldn't hold a job, so every six months, we'd move.

  

  Geneva Carr
  • Job
  • Father
  • Army

• If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big.

  

  Dick Van Patten
  • Good
  • Different
  • Saturday

• Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Time
  • Father
  • Athlete

• If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Great
  • Dad

• Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Hope
  • Father

• My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

  

  Christopher Durang
  • Mother
  • Father

• My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Love
  • Travel
  • Boy

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

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Father

• My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

  

  George Andrew Olah
  • Family
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• All my life, I have judged my worth by how much I have been loved by a man. It's so with a lot of women, that their self-esteem is measured by how much they are loved by a man, their partner, their boyfriend or maybe their husband. In my case, it may be because I grew up without my father.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Life
  • Up
  • Women

• My mother has always kept the entire family together - my dad, due to his business, has always been travelling, and hence, she at times had to play the role of a father and a mother as well.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Family
  • She
  • Business

• My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

  

  James Tobin
  • Father
  • Teacher
  • Wise

• I actually did want to be an actor when I was younger, but my father didn't want to hear anything about it. And you know what? I went with his decision. I said, 'Yeah, maybe you're right. I don't know anything about acting.'

  

  Kris Holden-Ried
  • Father
  • Decision

• I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

  

  George Papandreou
  • Life
  • Country
  • Freedom

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