Father Quotes

• My father was the artistic one. At a very young age, my father realised I had a strong voice and made me learn Hindustani vocal. I was five. I have Dad to thank for introducing me to the finer things in life.

  

  Lillete Dubey
  • Life
  • Age
  • Strong

• After my mother died, I learned that she'd had a scholarship to the University of Nebraska, but - in kind of a tradition that females don't do things like that - her father prevented her from going. She always said that she wasn't allowed to go to college, but until she died, I never knew that she'd had this scholarship.

  

  Barry Barish
  • She
  • Mother
  • College

• I recommend you come to know your Father in Heaven. Come to love Him. Always remember that He loves you and will give you guidance and support if you will but give Him the chance. Include Him in your decision making. Include Him in your heartaches and heartbreaks. Include Him when you take inventory of your personal worth.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Remember
  • Support
  • Decision

• Jerome was dyslexic until he was twelve, before it became fashionable. And he broke every pair of glasses I bought him. He hated wearing glasses. He was good at breaking things. Especially relationships. Just like his father.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Good
  • Father

• When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Mother
  • Spy
  • Dentist

• My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Good
  • Father
  • Boy

• My parents did the whole good-cop/bad-cop thing - Dad was the bad cop, and Mom was the good cop. I remember my father saying, 'I'm his father, not his friend.' That kind of stuck with me.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• God and His Son are glorified personages. God the Father is our living Creator, and His Son, Jesus Christ, is our Savior and Redeemer. We have been created in God's image.

  

  James E. Faust
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Son

• I was very keen on squash. My father used to go to sleep in the afternoon. Normally, in Pakistan, everybody goes to sleep in the afternoon, because it's really hot. I'd go and play without telling anybody.

  

  Jahangir Khan
  • Father
  • Sleep

• My mother, father and brothers (I was the youngest of three boys), were all very sarcastic and we were a complete Irish-Catholic family. We didn't talk about our feelings ever, and if we did, we were yelling about them - there was no in-between. That's just carried over so many ways in my life and sabotaged relationships, sabotaged creative stuff.

  

  Anthony Green Circa Survive
  • Mother
  • Feelings
  • Brother

• My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• I am proud to offer my endorsement of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States. He is a successful executive and entrepreneur, a wonderful father, and a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again.

  

  Jerry Falwell, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Proud

• For me, the relationship with my father is the most important thing that I have.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Important
  • Father
  • Relationship

• Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Christian

• My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

  

  John Cullum
  • Father
  • Honesty

• Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Father

• My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I had a great bond with my father. Even when I was a kid, my bond with my dad made me want to be a father myself one day.

  

  Kevin Frazier
  • Great
  • Father
  • Dad

• The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Son

• I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.

  

  Nelson Piquet
  • Father
  • Car
  • Driving

• My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Musician
  • Cry
  • Variety

• I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.

  

  C.P. Snow
  • Father
  • Science
  • Husband

• My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Father
  • Sister

• My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

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