Quotes About Father

I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.

My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

Don't look for a life virtually free from discomfort, pain, pressure, challenge, or grief, for those are the tools a loving Father uses to stimulate our personal growth and understanding.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.

I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.

Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.

The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

I don't want to blame it on not having a father figure in my life, but that has a lot to do with it too.

God is an exalted man. Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith... that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man.

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.

I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.

No wonder his father got drunk. He would get drunk too if he had to keep buying things without money.

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