Quotes about father
fathers-day boys men
Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.' Michael Gurian
father men good-relationship
My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man. Michael Haneke
father dark unique
Dexter's a unique killer in that his father saw his dark impulses, shined a light on them, and told Dexter that he saw them, he accepted them, that Dexter is good and that he is worthy of love. And I think that's what enables him to focus his energies in this unique way. Michael C. Hall
father feet machines
My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide. Michael Cera
father two over-you
There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father." Michael Caine
father stuff causes
My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.
father blue black
My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue. Merry Clayton
father way remember
No one could be the way I remember my father. Mason Cooley
father matriarchy patriarch
My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.
father grief anger
I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.
father age ghost
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.
father tin-cans cooking
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them. Mary Antin
father eye son
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes. Mary Astell
father thinking people
People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue. Martin Short
father kitchen becoming
Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef. Martin Yan
father want-something people
He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you. Martina Hingis
father mean thinking
If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.' Michael Moore
father fishing unions
My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy, the European Union. Michael Gove
father school kids
My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade. Michael Cerveris
father historic lows
The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low. Michael Chabon
father pittsburgh poet
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love.
fathers-day father men
A father is a man who fails every day.
father blood years
We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations. Menachem Begin
father years parent
Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult. Michel Houellebecq
father kids use
My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks. Michel Gondry
father invention
Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage. Michael Josephson
father kids ifs
The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids. Michael J. Fox
father son lasts
[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.
father believe mean
You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone. Michael Jordan
fathers-day dad trying
My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'
father kids eye
As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes. Mark Consuelos
father phones law
Sometimes we're at hotels, and I'll answer the phone. They'll say, 'Mr. Ripa, your breakfast is coming upstairs.' And I'm like, Is my father-in-law here? But, obviously, I'm proud either way - Ripa or Consuelos.
father needs safe
Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place. Mark Driscoll