Father Quotes

• I was able to walk at 5. I had to be able to walk in order to be mainstreamed into public school. And my father worked day and night to teach me how to walk. And I think what's so amazing about this is the fact that he was told that I would never walk. And he decided that he was going to try.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • School
  • Night
  • Amazing

• My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Taken

• I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. My father, before I was born, had been gassed in the first World War, and I wanted to know why there were wars, why people hurt each other, why we couldn't get along together, and what made people tick. That's why I started to write stories.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Now that I'm a father, I've forgiven my parents.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Father
  • Parents

• If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Earth
  • Relationship
  • Son

• My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • Important
  • Father
  • Grandmother

• But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Catholic

• Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • House
  • Brother
  • Baseball

• You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What I've discovered is you kind of wind up becoming your parents, which is also a cliche in itself. My father, despite the fact that he's been dead for over 25 years, he's been a huge influence on me.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Parents

• A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Life
  • Men
  • Girl

• When I came into the Perry family, it was one of those deals where it was the only family I had. I didn't have a father figure growing up like that, somebody who genuinely cared about me. Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Time
  • Death
  • Die

• I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Think
  • Father
  • Environmental

• I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Relationship

• I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

  

  David Alan Grier
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.

  

  Bonnie Bedelia
  • Mother
  • Father

• I didn't have a father to deal with about boyfriends. I didn't have a father to show me how a man and woman relate in a family setting. Therefore, I have given over my life to mentoring young people. I'm adamant about young people who have been denied a father/daughter relationship.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • War
  • Happy
  • Father

• I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Father

• Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

  

  Jim Jarmusch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Small

• My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Person

• Since I was a small boy, I was always around the game. I don't play golf much myself, but I love watching it. My father has played golf all his life.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Life
  • Game
  • Small

• Our philosophy is always to search for the best quality. That is something our father taught us. It's one way to be different from your competitors. You can try to be cheaper, or you can try to be better.

  

  Pier Luigi Loro Piana
  • Different
  • Quality
  • Search

• My father was the nurturing one, the one who always made sure my sister and I ate properly and that our hair was brushed... He really took care of the logistics of our upbringing.

  

  Kenza Fourati
  • Father
  • Hair
  • Sister

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