Quotes about father

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to playing cowboys is my father, Lloyd Bridges. When I was a little kid, I loved to dress up like a cowboy - put on the boots, hat, and walk around. He was in a lot of westerns, and my dad loved to ride.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.

I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true, they felt that way. As for my dad, I could not do anything wrong. So, if I did something wrong, I would put the blame on them, and he would shout at them.

Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.'

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

The child is father of the man.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

My father was a writer/director/producer, so instead of throwing a ball around, our bonding was going to see movies. And at an early age, I knew if I wanted to impress my dad, it was not going to be by throwing a ball real far.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated me like his son. He gave me the best advice about singing, about this and that... He was a very sensitive man, very astute, one of the sharpest men that I ever met in my life.

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior, has suffered and paid for our sins and those of all the people we will ever meet. He has perfect understanding of the feelings, the suffering, the trials, and the needs of every individual.

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

My father loved people, children and pets.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

I just wish I could understand my father.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'