Quotes of: Father Keyword

It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.

Paul Mellon

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

Maurice Sendak

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

Marc Davis

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

Matt Dillon

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Mo Rocca

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

Charley Pride

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

David Cassidy

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Diane Lane

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Enid Bagnold

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

Prince Charles

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Pete Rose

I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.

Cate Blanchett

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

Nick Cave

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

Vera Farmiga

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

Dan Rather

I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Jean de la Bruyere

As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we have to teach them simple lessons that can lead to a lifetime of good health.

Richard Carmona

My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54.

Liberty Ross

The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.

Shawn Amos