Father Quotes

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

David Hockney
- Up
- Family
- Father
My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

Gerard Depardieu

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I went to my father's at night. He spoke of poor John [Boswell's brother] with disgust. I was shocked and said, "He's your son, and God made him." He answered very harshly, "If my sons are idiots, can I help it?

James Boswell
- Father
- Night
- Disgust
Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.

Joseph B. Wirthlin
- Father
- Death
People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.

William Shatner
- People
- Writing
- Age
Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

David Lange
- Family
- Father
- Cousin
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
- Mother
- Father
- Crazy