Father Quotes
My father was an actor, and my mother was his agent, so I had it on both sides: the crazy actor and his representation.
Christian Slater
My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.
Jane Green
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
James Joyce
My father was an inspiration to me; I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.
Hayley Mills
I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'
Peter Mullan
Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.
Bindi Irwin
And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
Cornelia Funke
One day, you have a father who's always around, and then the next day, he's gone. I was too young to comprehend that. I actually thought he was going to come back.
Michelle Phan
At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than coddle me, shelter me, or do things for me, he taught me to 'Make the Case' for everything in life - from my first job to a graduation trip I wanted.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.
Frank McCourt
I just tried to play the game the right way. As you get older, Father Time is undefeated.
Jason Kidd
And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
Bob Schieffer
My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My mother was a mentor by showing me an example to say that if women have tenacity, they can achieve whatever they have to.
Chanda Kochhar
I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.
Kevin Hart
My father, the colonel, is for the king; yours for the Parliament.
G.A. Henty
[a story he told fans each year at the Delaware County (OH) Fair Little Brown Jug Stakes for pacers, which as a devoted harness-racing fan he attended annually] I grew up in the city not far from a burlesque theater and my father cautioned me not to go there because I might see something I shouldn't see. So, of course, when I got old enough I went right in, and sure enough I saw something I shouldn't - my father!
Charles Coburn
