Quotes about father
father world reggae
My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world. Ziggy Marley
father trying want
I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
father trying kind
Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.
father thinking artist
The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
father people generations
My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.
father different type
My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.
father good-relationship trying
My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.
father taken people
Everything I've taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can't say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it.
father garden two
People always say The God Father is the #1 movie of all time. But ask yourself, did you see Zach Braff in it....No you didn't. So then by default it goes to Garden State..and if youwatch two episodes of scrubs back to back that counts as the #2. Zach Braff
father men bars
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
father hammers tools
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself. Yusef Komunyakaa
father people musician
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future. Youssou N'Dour
father pieces cracks
To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it. Wendell Phillips
fathers-day imitation discipleship
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
father thinking catholic
You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest. Walter Matthau
father views asking-why
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. Walter Mosley
father mistake america
My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
father thinking people
I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'
fathers-day dad games
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. Wade Boggs
father men cranky
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. Willa Cather
father men emotional
The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it. Will Smith
fathers-day dad kids
There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
father years california
My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened. Warren Christopher
father wish complacency
I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. Virginia Woolf
father men atheism
Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Thus I am certain that, were He among us today, Christ would encourage scientific research as modern man's most noble striving to comprehend and admire His Father's handiwork. The universe as revealed through scientific inquiry is the living witness that God has indeed been at work. Wernher von Braun
father writing self
Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing. Wallace Stegner
father mind world
The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it. Wallace Stevens
father names west
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran. Salman Rushdie
father mean civilization
Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.
father years difficult-relationship
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
father son difficult-relationship
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
father stories firsts
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.
father son
Success has many fathers, failure many sons. Ryan Ross