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Quotes About Family

I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
~ Valentino Rossi
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
~ William Blake
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
~ Aaron Sorkin
I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.
~ Tina Ambani
Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.
~ Adam Sandler
Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'
~ Dhani Harrison
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
I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.
~ Princess Diana
Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.
~ Charles Koch
My father used to beat me with his belt...while it was still on him.
~ Zach Galifianakis
When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?
~ Charles Spurgeon
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
~ Douglass North
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
~ Sean Penn
My father was never anti-anything in our house.
~ Errol Flynn
All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.
~ George Eliot
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
~ Lasse Hallstrom
To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be based upon what is best for them.
~ Helen Andelin
My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
~ Bobby McFerrin
Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.
~ Hulk Hogan
We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.
~ Aasif Mandvi
The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
~ Clifford Geertz
If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.
~ Joe Frazier