Best Father Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.”

Long Ideas Mother Father Given Hurt Great Gifts Hurting Someone

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.”

Humans Culture Father My Own Human Beings Son Husband Degrees Males Notion Subversive Father Husband

Author:Mark Leyner

“Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.”

Way Different Kids Mother Father Communication Direct Different Ways

Author:Richard Louv

“When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.”

Kids Mother Father Theater Nerd Descending Orpheus

Author:Logan Marshall-Green

“My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.”

Children Father My Children

Author:Lord Mountbatten

“When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.”

Book Ideas Stories Kids Father Versions Short Story Fables Format

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.”

Long Art Stills Father Sculpture Inclination

Author:Moses Mendelssohn

“I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.”

Years Political Used Father Rooms Party Leader Subjects Members Prison Congress British Fighter Evening Living Room Unfamiliar Prominent Freedom Fighter Locality Congress Party

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement.”

Father Parent Sides Movement Involved Mets My Family Kenya

Author:Tom Morello

“My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.”

Feels I Can Helping Father Clear College Ordinary Paid Best Things Upbringing Trainees

Author:Vijay Mallya

“Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.”

Men Father Strong Grows Son Allowing Very Strong

Author:John Noble

“My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.”

Giving Children Father Pleasure Special One Day Treats Anxious Towers Chimes

Book:James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography

Source: James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography

“When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.”

Men Ends Mother Father Streets Debt Teenager Ruined Mother And Father

Author:Jo Nesbo

“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.”

Firsts Bigs Eye Father Sound Records Player Listening Grew Band Grew Up Ears Jazz Caught Brown Illinois Tenors Coltrane Brownies

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.”

Mind Long Play Character Guy Father Given Changed Lovers Illusion Wide Range Villain Cop Bad Guys

Author:Navid Negahban

“My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.”

Years Bigs Mother Father House Parent Born Cooks County Big Houses Chauffeurs Norfolk

Author:Paul Nurse

“Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.”

Ifs Wells Kids Father Honor Definitions Mask Outrageous

Author:Richard Neal

“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.”

Years Film Actors Father Left Company Six Seven University Relief Waking Documentaries Seven Years Documentary Films

Author:Sam Neill

“We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.”

Hard Used Father Poor Class Figures Masters Mom Honor University My Mom Accepted New Orleans Contractor

Author:Frank Ocean

“I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.”

Thinking Father Taken Lifetime Good Father

Author:Mike Oldfield

“One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.”

Father Quiet Waste Comfortable Skins Voters Ritual Attributes Wasting Time Dedicated Impressive Phony Quiet Confidence

Author:Ron Fournier

“No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.”

Father Education Teacher Garden Method Guru

Author:Van Morrison

“Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president.”

Thinking Knows May Running Political Father Names President Middle Barack Krypton

Author:Barack Obama

“He's amazing. He's a really dedicated father. I feel very blessed that every day I wake up and I live with my favourite people in the world, as well as my best friend.”

People World Feels Wells Father Blessing Wake Up Blessed Dedicated Favourite My Best Friend

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son.”

People God Hands Hate Father Strong Love You Mines Son Arms God Love Infant Folds God Loves You

Author:Chief Seattle

“But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.”

Kind God Reality Father Heaven Figures Rate Dissolving Father Figure

Author:John Lennon

“But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord.”

Want Persons God Father Walks Lord Break Higher Husband Addiction Come Up

Author:Joel Osteen

“When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.”

Father Perspective Birth Passed Away Father Passed Away

Author:Christine Lagarde

“I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.”

World Way Happens Father Class Struggle Seeing Rage Immigrants Tied Working Class Tied Up

Author:Dennis Lehane

“My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.”

Ifs Able Father Games Watches England Died Australia Cricket 1930s Father Died My Father Died

Author:Desmond Llewelyn

“In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.”

Men Years War Father Difficult Poor Soldier Makers Furniture Payment

Author:Trevor Nunn

“I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.”

Humans Persons Christian Father Black Human Beings Husband Black Person

Author:David Oyelowo

“I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.”

World Want Children Done Able Father Watches Knowing One Day My Children

Author:David Oyelowo

“You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow, that's too bad,' and then most people tend to go about their day. But when someone tells you that it's your father or it's your family, that doesn't tend to go away.”

People Whole Father Cancer Whole Life Our Family Going Away Wow

Author:Jake Owen

“There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.”

Want Humans Father Human Beings

Author:Jake Owen

“I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.”

School Father Boys Teach Teacher Son Physics Sydney Everyman

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.”

“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.”

Writing Years Dream Remember Next Father Left Five Mines Months Scene Pages Eight Twins Fragments

Author:Tamora Pierce

“I have patterned myself after my father and God.”

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Author:Adam Petty

“My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.”

Said Hard Wanted Young Mother Father Teacher Actresses Supportive

Author:Archie Panjabi

“The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.”

Firsts Father Bits Talking Saws Stage Sweet First Time Dinner Flesh Charming

Author:Christopher Plummer

“At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.”

People Mother Father Belief Can Do Advice Greek Recalls Distress Nurture Best Advice Keep The Faith

Author:George Papandreou

“I think there is a heritage which I’m proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.”

Thinking Country Fighting Father Social Justice Principles Democracy Proud Six Social Justice Jail Heritage Grandfather Exile My Grandfather Fighting For Freedom

Author:George Papandreou

“I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.”

Ifs Country Might Today Father Military Becoming Politician Six My Family Prison Professors Grandfather Dictatorship My Grandfather

Author:George Papandreou

“I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.”

Way Play Fighting Father Scene Chairs Surgery Thumbs Flew Wrists Ripped Choreography

Author:Jeremy Piven

“My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.”

Made Play School Mother Three Evil Father Speak Wise Gold Clubs Charm Grandmother Fascinated Monkeys My Grandmother Lap

Author:Mackenzie Phillips

“My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.”

Father Ears Hank Williams Ravel

Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.”

School Mother Father Company High School Firm Secretary Going To Work Printing Salesman Merchants Clerks Wool Stationary Bookkeepers

Author:Martin Lewis Perl

“Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.”

Children Father Bits Broken Bed Machines Boxes Toys Electric Motor Useful Things Electric Motors

Author:Nick Park

“I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.”

Looks Wanted Beautiful Young Girl Father Black Figures Hair Video Asian Father Figure Black Hair

Author:Pauley Perrette

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