Father Quotes
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My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that's my father.
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My father was an architect.
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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.
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I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.
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The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.
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Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
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What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?
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My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.
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My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.
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Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.
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My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.
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You are the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the teacher and the guide for the soul that has been placed in your trust.
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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.
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My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.
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We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.
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When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.
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My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to prosper.
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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.
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I see a lot of parallels between my father and Donald Trump.
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When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.
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In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book.
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My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.
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I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict what he would do, where he would be, who he would be. And it's sort of interesting because Eleanor Roosevelt never writes about her mother's agony. She only writes about her father's agony. But her whole life is dedicated to making it better for people in the kind of need and pain and anguish that her mother was in.
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I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster.
