Father Quotes

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.
Louis C. K.

Marriage, Mother, Down

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Education, Musical, Incredible

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
Kid Rock

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.
Julie Andrews

Time, Him, Birth

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.
Julie Andrews

Nature, Best, Mother

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'
Lewis Black

Dad, Two, Start

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
Susan Orlean

School, Writing, Law

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
David Duchovny

Fear, Dad, Realize

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
Ang Lee

Family, Him, Everyone

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
Ang Lee

Love, Work, Against

Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.
Ang Lee

Study, Film, Considered

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.
Kid Rock

Great, Why, Custody

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
Ralph Nader

Dad, Political, Said

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.
Henry Louis Gates

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
Henry Louis Gates

History, Made, Son

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.
Henry Louis Gates

Life, End, Long

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.
Henry Louis Gates

Live, Words, Through

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
Henry Louis Gates

Made, Funniest, Undertaker

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Coloured

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
Janice Dickinson

Home, Daily, Boy

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne

Mother, Wish, Both

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
Haile Gebrselassie

Angry, Him, Remember

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.
Amitabh Bachchan

Love, Play, Her

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.
Emma Thompson

High, Stranger, Town

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
Marion Jones

Life, Mom, Light

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
Jay London

Music, Wanted, Instrument

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
Janis Joplin

House, Tv, Allow

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
Harlan Coben

Great, End, Joy

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
Liza Minnelli

Dreams, Future, Mother

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

Great, Wish, Consider

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