Father Quotes

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

King George V
- Children
- Mother
- Father
When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But my mother found the books rather upsetting. I figure she read just enough to know that she didn't want to go there.

Peter Carey
- Work
- She
- Mother

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

Laverne Cox
- Life
- Mother
- Mom
I am always drawn to father/son stories.

Kelly Masterson
- Father
- Son
My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.

David Lee
- Up
- Children
- School
Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema?

Elvis Mitchell
- Father
- Action
I think the model that I look at is someone like Jakob Dylan, whose dad is obviously every bit if not more famous than mine. He's a guy who sought to build a career on his own, doing something that's a little bit different than what his father does.

Owen King
- Different
- Guy
- Career
As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.

Clyde Edgerton
- Up
- Important
- Women