Father Quotes
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If the man who turnips cries,Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had ratherHave a turnip than his father.
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I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.
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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.
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I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.
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My father lead by fear. I did what my father said ‘cause I was scared of getting my ass beat. His voice rang so vividly in my head. That it was just…a fear.
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It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
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When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.
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My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in.
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My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.
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We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.
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Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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My father was very sick around the time I was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't live. He did recover, but I don't remember him as very active. I do remember lots of schtick around the dinner table. Generally, he and my brothers and I were all laughing at the same thing my mother did not find funny, whatever that was.
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My father was very sick around the time I was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't live. He did recover, but I don't remember him as very active. I do remember lots of schtick around the dinner table. Generally, he and my brothers and I were all laughing at the same thing my mother did not find funny, whatever that was.
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My father had a heart attack and he has heart disease. He had a full recovery, and I'm very lucky, but it certainly made him look at the way he's living and how he's treating his body.
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I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.
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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
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My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
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Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right.
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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.
