Father Quotes
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
Jean de la Bruyere
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the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.
Leslie Caron
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One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask me and my sister. We'd spin the globe around and guess. . . . The globe brought me a sense of wonder and adventure. I wanted to go to those other places and see how people did things differently. And, many years later, when I did visit other countries, I took my father's interest and fascination with me. When we plant the seeds of fascination and respect for other people, we are teaching tolerance and peace.
Charlotte Kasl
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I'm a very strange painter. I don't wake up one day and say, 'God, isn't this a fantastic day, I'd better get out and paint!' I think my father's more that way, because he's very fast.
Jamie Wyeth
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My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.
James Costos
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I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
Gene Tierney
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People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.
Jenna Bush
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Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together.
Charles J. Shields
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The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.
Konrad Lorenz
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I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.
Lily King
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My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.
Ahmet Zappa
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You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.
Jeremy Hardy
