Father Quotes

We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.

Karrine Steffans
- Women
- Real
- Mother
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

Walter Kohn
- World
- War
- Lost

My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.

Hanya Yanagihara
- Work
- Father
- Health
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

T. D. Jakes
- Mother
- Father
- Methodist
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

Action Bronson
- She
- Mother
- Pretty
I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

Colin Hay Men at Work
- Up
- Music
- Mother
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.

Bharati Mukherjee
- Writing
- Home
- Night
I have a few childhood nicknames. One is 'Babygirl'. My father gave that to me when I was born. He said, 'I have a beautiful baby girl' and that one stuck with me. A lot of people still call me 'Babygirl'.

Aaliyah
- People
- Beautiful
- Girl