Father Quotes

• I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.

  

  Emory Cohen
  • Father

• My father was very outwardly religious.

  

  John McGahern
  • Father
  • Religious

• The genesis of Donald Trump's relationship with Paul Manafort begins with Roy Cohn. That Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthy's heavy-lidded henchman, lawyer to the Genovese family. During the '70s, Trump and his father hired Cohn as their lawyer to defend the family against a housing discrimination suit.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Trump

• In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Home
  • Age
  • City

• I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • Important
  • Help
  • Father

• I was supposed to go to Northwestern and become a dental hygienist, get married, have babies. My father was very against me being in show business. Usually in Chinese culture, education is the most highly valued.

  

  Lauren Tom
  • Business
  • Culture
  • Education

• 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

• My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.

  

  Jensen Ackles
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• 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

• I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Father
  • Man
  • Eat

• I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.

  

  Per Petterson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Remember

• I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Experience
  • Die
  • Husband

• Patrick imagined Kay’s father sunk in the back of the car, his eyes glazed over with exhaustion and his lungs, like torn fishing nets, trawling vainly for air.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Eyes
  • Car
  • Air

• I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

  

  Brendan Coyle
  • Father

• When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Church

• He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, … I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare you?' And he stormed out of the theater and I followed him and we fought and argued and hugged and he cried and we made up.

  

  John Leguizamo
  • Up
  • Father

• I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

  

  Georg Baselitz
  • Father
  • Painting

• Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • May
  • Father
  • Prayer

• The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Blood
  • Patriot
  • Veins

• My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Parents

• My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

  

  Danny Aiello
  • Good
  • Father

• On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • House
  • Old
  • Talking

• My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • World
  • Great

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