Quotes About Father

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

Hey, Ocean Eyes," my father said. "Where'd you go on us?

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.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

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.

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.

My father used to beat me with his belt...while it was still on him.

My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

My father is a guy who will fight and he will fight for America and he's always fought for himself.

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death.

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.

Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.