Father Quotes

I loved being my father's audience and watching him in front of the mirror as he talked to himself made up like a clown.

Claude Picasso
- Up
- Father
- Mirror
My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.

Anne Reid
- World
- Job
- War

People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.

Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
- People
- Want
- Born
But you say, 'by obedience to another he loses his liberty.' How then is it that children suffer the orders of their father and mother, and pupils the injunctions of their instructors?

Philo
- Children
- Mother
- Father
Ever since my childhood, I had seen my father carrying so many bags- suitcases with false bottoms , leather satchels or overnight bags, even those black briefcases that gave him a false air of repectability…. And I never knew just what was in them. ( 52 )

Patrick Modiano
- Black
- Air
- Childhood
I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes everything - your mother, your father, your everything. You are dependent on the church.

Leah Remini
- Mother
- Church
- Daughter
A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

Louis Nizer
- Life
- Father
- Thousand
My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.

Ang Lee
- Up
- Family
- Parents