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Quotes About Father

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
~ Laura Linney
Yes, of course my father harmed and caused a lot of damage but both stories are true. He did things to help and destroy Colombia, both are true.
~ Juan Pablo Escobar
My father was all brain and little heart.
~ Stephen Fry
If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.
~ Ray Bradbury
My father-he pretty much taught me everything I know. He still pushes me to be the best I can.
~ Tim Lincecum
A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids.
~ Unknown
My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.
~ Richard Ernst
My father was a manual worker.
~ Diane Abbott
At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.
~ Dinaw Mengestu
Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
~ Landon Donovan
A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.
~ Jay Leno
My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.
~ Dominic Chianese
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
~ Sam Abell
I saw The Empire Strikes Back the week that it came out. My father was a huge Star Wars fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.
~ Donald Faison
My father has always been supportive of my individuality.
~ Sharon Stone
And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.
~ Wilt Chamberlain
I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.
~ John Nettles
My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.
~ Richard E. Grant
My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.
~ Frank Gehry
I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.
~ Lupe Fiasco
I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
~ Steven Spielberg
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.
~ Josh Billings
George Burns was the father I never had
~ Bobby Darin
A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.
~ Chiwetel Ejiofor