Father Quotes

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

Duane Michals
- Important
- Father
I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

Ted Turner

My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

Valentino Rossi
- Father
- Passion
- Bike
My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.

Michael Cera
- Machines
- Wide
- Xerox
Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

Amos Lee
- Mother
- Father
In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.

Jill Lepore
- Mother
- Father
- Car
Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.

Sophocles
- Father
- Child
- Respects
'Malthus,', says Vice President Al Gore in Earth in the Balance, 'was right in predicting that the population would grow geometrically.' Al, as the father of four children, should know.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Children
- Earth
- Balance