Quotes of: Father Keyword

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

Lincoln Steffens

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

Madeleine Albright

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

Mia Farrow

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

Marianne Moore

I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.

Mark McKinnon

I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid would come out so beautiful and lovely.

Mike Myers

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.

Rich Mullins

Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.

Richard G. Scott

My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.

Raquel Welch

My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!'

Sanjeev Bhaskar

I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.

Mariano Rivera

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

Mickey Rourke

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

Mattie Stepanek

My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.

Nita Ambani

George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.

Nancy Gibbs

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

Nicolas Cage

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.

Norman Wisdom

If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

Yotam Ottolenghi

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

John M. McHugh

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

Annie Dillard

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

Anupam Kher