I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
Nicolaus Copernicus

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

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander the Great

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Virginia Woolf

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Elizabeth I

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.
Jose Mourinho

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

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
Sidney Poitier

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Sidney Poitier

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley

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?
Will Smith

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
Gerald R. Ford

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
Sitting Bull

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

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
Sitting Bull

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William Penn

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.
Robert Mondavi