Quotes of: Father Keyword

No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

My father lost his business. Our house was locked up, and we had to leave.

Kumar Pallana

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

Marilyn Manson

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

Sherman Alexie

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

Viktor Yushchenko

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

Nick Mason

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

Amy Heckerling

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Christine Keeler

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

Camryn Manheim

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

David Rockefeller

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

Fred Allen

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

George Eliot

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

Miguel Indurain

My father is sort of the jokester. My dad is still the funniest guy in our family.

Seth Meyers

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

Hugh Leonard

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

Sam Sheppard

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

Gordon Bell

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

John James Audubon

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

Olivia Williams

My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.

Zoe Wanamaker

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

Yoko Ono