Quotes of: Father Keyword

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Lionel Barber

My father came to Chennai at the age of 16 from a village in Coimbatore. He was an artist and was clear he wanted to do something, so he came to Chennai and joined an art course for eight years before he came into films.

Suriya

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

Jason Scott Lee

Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a father's anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both ...

Michael Leunig

My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

Nathaniel Kahn

My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around.

Carrie Mae Weems

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

Marina Abramovic

I had a great view of the sunset. At least until father went and changed the channel. Dammit, dad!

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

I'm not seeing a strong father-son relationship here, Alex. You two make Anakin and Luke look like Andy and Opie.

Alpha

A father’s only dream is to hear his daughter ask to kill some zombies. Go for it, sweetie. Make this old man proud.

The Human Race

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

Heartfire

The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.

The Human Script

Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.

Holy Bible: King James Version

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

How Green Was My Valley

Where do we find allies?" Father Yarvi smiled. "Among our enemies, where else?

Half the World

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

The Inner Circle

Wasn't it what her father always warned her about? Don't jump off a bridge because a cute guy tells you to?

The Immortal Game

Chairs have legs. Four of them, like my father. Meow.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

The Iliad

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother