1,327 quotes
The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
Atom Egoyan
Director · Canadian · b. 1960
My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.
Ron Reagan
Journalist · American · b. 1958
Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well.
Junipero Serra
Clergyman · 1713 – 1784
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
Simon van der Meer
Physicist · Dutch · b. 1925
My father's sister never married in order to raise me.
Marcel Carne
Director · French · 1906 – 1996
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson
Statesman · American · 1893 – 1971
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
George Weinberg
Psychologist · American
My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Politician · French · b. 1928
He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.
George Martin
Producer · English · b. 1926
I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father.
Thomas Campbell
Poet · Scottish · 1777 – 1844
My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
John Henry Carver
Physicist · Australian
One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Novelist · French · 1880 – 1918
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
Royalty · English · b. 1948
To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.
Robert Moog
Inventor · American · 1934 – 2005
Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.
Max Cannon
Artist · American
My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.
Marc Davis
Artist · American · 1913 – 2000
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
Alice Walker
Author · American · b. 1944
My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.
Joe Eszterhas
Writer · Hungarian · b. 1944
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
William Barclay
Theologian · Scottish · 1907 – 1978
I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.
Sandra Cisneros
Author · American · b. 1954
But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.
Donald Cargill
Clergyman · Scottish
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
Donald Johanson
Scientist · American · b. 1943
The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
Clara Barton
Public Servant · American · 1821 – 1912
As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.
Gresham Barrett
Politician · American · b. 1961
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
Mary Antin
Activist · Russian · 1909 – 1949
Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard?
Howard Cosell
Lawyer · American · 1918 – 1995
My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
Immanuel Velikovsky
Historian · Belarusian · 1895 – 1979
When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
Douglass North
Economist · American · b. 1920
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
June Jordan
Writer · American · 1936 – 2002
And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
Bob Schieffer
Journalist · American · b. 1937
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
Philip Warren Anderson
Scientist · American · b. 1923
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
Carl Spitteler
Poet · Swiss · 1845 – 1924
When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.
Paula Danziger
Author · American · 1944 – 2004
No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.
Margaret Turnbull
Scientist · American
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
Mario Cuomo
Politician · American · b. 1932
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
John C. Hawkes
Novelist · American · 1925 – 1998
He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
Barbara Castle
Politician · British · 1910 – 2002
My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
Philip Levine
Poet · American · b. 1928
IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.
Edward Carpenter
Activist · English · 1844 – 1929
When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
Charles Kuralt
Journalist · American · 1934 – 1997
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
James Rainwater
Scientist · American · 1917 – 1986
If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.
Mary Todd Lincoln
First Lady · American · 1818 – 1882
My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
Claude Chabrol
Director · French · b. 1930
Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.
Sigrid Undset
Novelist · Norwegian · 1882 – 1949
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Photographer · American · 1946 – 1989
I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.
Birch Bayh
Politician · American · b. 1928
My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.
Joseph Mitchell
Writer · American · 1908 – 1996
Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
Pat Schroeder
Politician · American · b. 1940
