Father Quotes

• We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • Father
  • Scary

• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Mother
  • Parenting

• Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Help

• I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Gift

• My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Father
  • Car
  • Wonder

• Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Father
  • Eyes

• My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Character
  • Father
  • Never

• You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Father
  • Know

• My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Nice

• My father once said, 'If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don't have to follow. You don't have to make a big deal about which way you're going. Just go. It's very easy.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • World
  • Father

• My father, he couldn't read or write.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Father

• My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

  

  Dorothy Malone
  • Father

• My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Time
  • Country
  • Parents

• When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Great
  • Father
  • Fear

• Without my ministry, I would just be Martin Luther King's daughter. You know, when people call me that, it doesn't bother me anymore. I know I am not my father. I know I am me.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • Daughter
  • King

• The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Relationship
  • Weekend

• Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • People
  • Bad
  • Guy

• If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Food

• I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Saint

• I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Strength

• My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • German

• My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Father

• My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • World
  • Different
  • Mother

• I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Brother

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