Father Quotes

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

  

  Anais Nin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Slavery

• I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Father
  • Actor
  • More

• As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Child
  • Architecture

• Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Athletes

• My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Father
  • Wine
  • Very

• My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Father
  • Relationship

• My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Country
  • Father

• My father liked Iowa. He lived his whole life in the state, and is even now working his way through eternity there, in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Life
  • Father

• Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • Real
  • Home
  • Fun

• My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes of sketchbooks from all the trips I've ever been on. It gets you by when you don't know what to give people as a gift; drawings are good souvenirs.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • People
  • Good
  • Father

• My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

  

  John Henry Carver
  • Father
  • House

• At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Childhood

• My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!

  

  Jean-Luc Bilodeau
  • School
  • Father

• My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Real
  • Family
  • Mother

• I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Church

• My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

  

  John Dyer
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Actress

• I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.

  

  Christina Applegate
  • Mother
  • Father

• My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

  

  John Cassavetes
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mother

• I'm a man that's unique to the world. That's kind of the star I was born under - on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius. My mother is Irish-American, and my father is Afro-Panamanian, so it's kind of been the story of my life to be a bridge between different cultures and different styles, and musically, that's between jazz and R&B.

  

  Jose James
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• My mom's father came from a family of 11 children who came over from the island of Ischia, Italy, and settled in Providence, RI. Her mother was part of the large community of French-speaking Canadians who settled in Woonsocket, RI.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Children
  • Family
  • Mother

• If you're a parent, you know how incredibly good it feels when one of your children spontaneously thanks you for something. God is our Father, and he, too, is moved when we express our thanksgiving.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Good
  • God
  • Children

• I sat very still, as befitted a small boy among strangers, staring wide-eyed into a world I did not know. I was six years old and my father was dying.

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • World
  • Small
  • Boy

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