Father Quotes
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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
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Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.
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My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.
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Whenever one of my children says, 'Goodnight, Daddy,' I always think to myself, 'You don't mean that.
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I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
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My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.
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My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.
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I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."
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Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?
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I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'
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If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.
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I walked on eggshells a lot. I have a bad self-esteem problem, and my father probably facilitated it. He once looked at me very seriously when I was about 15 and had whipped cream smeared all over myself. He said, 'You'd do anything for a laugh, wouldn't you?'
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My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.
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My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
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I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.
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I have teenage boys and I think teenage boys require a father to have eyeballs on them at all times.
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When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant.
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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.
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I have this colored friend Betty well, I never thought about it one way or the other until one day I went over her house for the first time and her father opened the door and I was surprized to see he was colored. Because, to me I was so used to her she always looked normal.
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I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.
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Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother - after all, your country nourishes you, protects you, and in many ways makes you who you are. Just as it's a virtue to honor your parents, it's a good and admirable thing to honor the land you call home.
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Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.
