Father Quotes

Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

Haile Selassie
- Father
My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.

Jean-Pierre Leaud
- Mother
- Father

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

Dale T. Mortensen
- Up
- Mother
- Night
My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.

George Brett
- Trying
- Father
My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

Gael Garcia Bernal
- She
- Me
- Mom
My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.

Platon Antoniou
- Up
- Power
- Remember
My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

Hannah Storm
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Anais Nin
- Time
- Long
- Slavery