Father Quotes

• I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.

  

  David Walliams
  • Friends
  • Happy
  • Parents

• I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Singing

• I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.

  

  Alaina Huffman
  • Father

• He who invites us to follow will always be out in front of us with His Spirit and influence setting the pace. He has charted and marked the course, opened the gates, and shown the way. He has invited us to come unto Him, and the best time to enjoy His companionship is straightway. We can best get on the course and stay on the course by doing as Jesus did-make a total commitment to do the will of His Father.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Time
  • Jesus
  • Spirit

• I always appreciated that connection between a parent and a kid because I yearned for it so much. Growing up, I wanted a father, and because I've had this idea of what a father should be, it's exciting to finally have the opportunity to try and be that guy, to see if I can actually do it.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Time
  • Money
  • Job

• My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Country
  • Father
  • Poverty

• My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out, "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Beautiful
  • Saint
  • Rage

• I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Son

• My mother was asked to be a model when she was younger, but my father had not let her, so she was quite keen on me becoming a model. I just went off without telling my dad. I took off to Paris and never came back, but when I became a success and started making money, he was very proud of me.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Proud

• I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

  

  Jared Kushner
  • Different
  • Father
  • Identity

• The father, the Name-of-the-father, sustains the structure of desire with the structure of the law- but the inheritance of the father is that which Kierkegaard designates for us, namely, his sin.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Father
  • Law
  • Desire

• I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • God
  • Father

• My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• At the end of the day, I'm very convinced that you're going to be judged on how you are as a husband and as a father and not on how many bowl games we won.

  

  Urban Meyer
  • Father
  • Husband

• My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.

  

  Dominick Dunne
  • Heart
  • Crazy
  • Famous

• Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Hunting

• I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Father

• Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • She
  • Mother
  • Same

• All I can really tell you about my father is that he did odd things like put tin foil on a bottle of beer after having a few sips, then put it in the refrigerator to perhaps have on another night.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Father
  • Night
  • Beer

• David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed!

  

  Didi Conn
  • Music
  • Son
  • Husband

• My father and I never really achieved a real relationship. We probably saw each other 20 or 25 times in our lifetime.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Real
  • Father
  • Relationship

• I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Extent

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