Father Quotes

• We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • She
  • Father
  • Mom

• While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Peace
  • Storm
  • Desert

• Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!

  

  Kenneth More
  • Father
  • Coward

• My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Art
  • Father
  • Performance

• At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.

  

  Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Die

• Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Father

• I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Life
  • Father

• Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.

  

  Bernice King
  • Believe
  • Community
  • Poverty

• My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.

  

  Jason Clarke
  • Up
  • School
  • Mother

• I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I remember just trying to navigate growing up poor in an overpoliced environment with a single mother and a father who was in and out of prison.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Mother
  • Father

• My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Mother
  • Father

• I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Family
  • Home
  • America

• My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Poor

• Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. All praise to thee, who safe hast kept and hast refreshed me while I slept! Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless life partake. All praise to thee, my God, this night for all the blessings of the light. Keep me, oh keep me, King of Kings, beneath Thine own almighty wings. Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

  

  Thomas Ken
  • Life
  • Night
  • Running

• Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Dad

• Often, I am asked, 'What was your father like?' or, 'What would he think?' These are very difficult questions to answer, as I was so very young when I lost my father.

  

  Bernice King
  • Father
  • Lost

• I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • World
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• My father lost his business. Our house was locked up, and we had to leave.

  

  Kumar Pallana
  • Up
  • Business
  • House

• My father was very outwardly religious.

  

  John McGahern
  • Father
  • Religious

• 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

• When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • School
  • Father
  • Summer

• My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Long
  • Friends
  • American

• My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

  

  James Cronin
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Greek

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