Quotes About Father

Everyone knows these stories about a wild and crazy guy called Bonzo, but at home he was just like any other father; always hollering at me for not doing my homework.

My father started me in football. So what better way is there to honor him than to wear his last name on my back and make him proud?

I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.

My father wasn't there the majority of the time. My father, someone who I always honored and looked up to, had been in the military; he had been to war. I would hear stories about different experiences he went through, but as I got older, my father moved away.

One of the greatest honors of a Catholic and Christian is to meet the Holy Father.

My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.

I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

My father had always hoped that one day I would be a great cricketer, captaining the Stowe Eleven, perhaps, or even playing for Cambridge.

My father was a doctor, so I thought I was going to be a doctor, too, but I couldn't do maths; I couldn't do science. I was hopeless at chemistry.

I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.

My dad would do horrible things to me, but I was so desperate for his affection and his approval that I would keep coming back.

I got a horse when I was eight or 10 years old. And dad used to take me to the rodeo back home. I got into it big time.

My father brought a basketball to the hospital when I was born, and he already had it embedded in his head that I would be a ball player.

The last time I saw Dad alive, he was in the hospital. He was watching 'Hell Drivers,' a crummy B-movie about truckers, on TV and reading the 'Daily Record.' This seems scarcely believable, but I actually said, 'Dad, you've not got long to go - don't you think you should be imbibing the culture a bit more?'

My father, I spent a lot of time with him at the hospital. I was with him when he took his last breath, but I felt something coming from him into my hand and into my body.

I saw 'The Shining' when I was too young with my dad in San Francisco in the hotel room.

My father is a retired FBI agent. I have guns in my house. I'm not against the Second Amendment.

I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

One summer I was made housekeeper to my own family, making menus and shopping lists. It was my mother's idea of teaching me to be a grown-up. The main thing I remember is my father being so delighted to get roast duck.

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

My dad doesn't hug me enough!

My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.

My father is a huge fan! As far back as I can remember, he has been talking about them. Before I even knew what Liverpool was as a kid, he was mad about them.

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.