Quotes of: Father Keyword

For me, it’s not just about blessing my generation, I've done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.

Onyi Anyado

I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.

Oscar Isaac

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

Peter Lewis Allen

I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

Pat Conroy

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Phil Collins

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

Peter Fonda

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.

Park Geun-hye

Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.

Pastor Maldonado

No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.

Pradeepa Pandiyan

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.

Payne Stewart

I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies.

Rochelle Aytes

If I was a father, and my son told me he wanted to go out and be a publisher, I'd say, 'Go get a job.'

Richard Chizmar

The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through.

Roger Clemens

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

Ron Chernow

My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.

Richard Elman

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

Richard Flanagan

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

Robert Jarvik

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.

Seamus Heaney

My father was judgmental and kind of mean, and I'm like that. And he was very perfectionistic, and I'm like that. And he was very hard on himself, and I'm like that.

Susanna Kaysen

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

Steve Largent

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

Susan Lucci