Father Quotes

I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'
Emo Philips

Said, Girlfriend, She

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi

Woman, Political, Saint

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

Good, Practice, Taught

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.
Frank Butler

Thought, Find, Pretty

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
Mark Wahlberg

Good, God, Husband

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'
Tom Hiddleston

Life, Work, Strong

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

Life, Nothing, Decided

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
Ted Nugent

Respect, Children, Before

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
Ted Nugent

Wise, Words, Before

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
Eric Clapton

Music, Men, Experience

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
Marilyn vos Savant

Mother, Able, Secrets

What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.
Benny Hinn

God, Him, Jesus

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
Jeff Bridges

Business, Kids, Show

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.
Jeff Bridges

Life, Mother, Live

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

Husband, Fail, Works

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
Hedy Lamarr

Mother, Remember, Bottom

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Hedy Lamarr

Fire, Tell, Child

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Louisa May Alcott

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Jean de La Fontaine

Impossible, Please

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
Jeff Bridges

Alone, Dad, Famous

What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.
Jeff Bridges

Work, Him, Learned

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.
Jeff Bridges

Mother, Brother, Teachers

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
Jeff Bridges

Age, Tough, Door

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.
Drew Barrymore

Money, Great, Dad

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.
Hugh Jackman

Husband, Spiritual, Important

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Great, Sadness, Excuses

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
Clara Barton

Blood, Warm, Patriot

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.
Marco Rubio

Good, Husband, Bad

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.
Nicole Richie

Important, Copy, Encouraged

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