Father Quotes (963 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Micky Dolenz
„There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.“
― Micky Dolenz ―
Picture of quotation author Errol Flynn
„My father was never anti-anything in our house.“
― Errol Flynn ―
Picture of quotation author William Wordsworth
„The child is father of the man.“
Picture of quotation author Ezra Taft Benson
„Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.“
Picture of quotation author Audrey Hepburn
„If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.“
― Audrey Hepburn ―
Picture of quotation author Ed Begley, Jr.
„I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.“
― Ed Begley, Jr. ―
Picture of quotation author Dominique Moceanu
„My father wasn't allowing me control and the financial freedom that I was asking for. I was 17, about to be 18 within a year, so I started asking more questions because I felt that I needed to start learning about those things.“
Picture of quotation author Vanilla Ice
„I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.“
― Vanilla Ice ―
Picture of quotation author Bobby Womack
„I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.“
― Bobby Womack ―
Picture of quotation author Huston Smith
„In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.“
― Huston Smith ―
Picture of quotation author Bill Cosby
„We are all anxious to be accepted. But if you have a strong mother and father who tell you that you don't have to dress a crazy way, or hang out with people who are looking for trouble in order to be loved and accepted, then half the battle is over.“
― Bill Cosby ―
Picture of quotation author Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
„I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.“
Picture of quotation author Sigrid Undset
„Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.“
― Sigrid Undset ―
Picture of quotation author Joss Whedon
„All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just be something he said casually in conversation.“
― Joss Whedon ―
Picture of quotation author Giles Duley
„I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols.“
― Giles Duley ―
Picture of quotation author Sidney Poitier
„My father was very big on marriage.“
― Sidney Poitier ―
Picture of quotation author Jesus Christ
„But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.“
― Jesus Christ ―
Picture of quotation author Michael Haneke
„It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.“
― Michael Haneke ―
Picture of quotation author Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
„I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.“
Picture of quotation author Richard Simmons
„My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run. Who are you competing against? It's you. You need to be doing this for you and only you.“
― Richard Simmons ―

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