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Quotes About Father

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
~ Haruki Murakami
I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.
~ Michael Strahan
My father is an amazing man.
~ Sherman Alexie
I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'
~ Peter Mullan
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
~ Salman Rushdie
I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.
~ Annette Funicello
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
~ Shmuel Yosef Agnon
I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.
~ Rafael Nadal
No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.
~ Josh Lucas
My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.
~ Ron Reagan
I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.
~ John F. Kerry
My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research.
~ Pete Docter
I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.
~ Aravind Adiga
I look a lot like my father when he was my age.
~ Troy Garity
Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?
~ Cassandra Clare
My father was absolutely no good.
~ Charles Rangel
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
~ Vaughn Monroe
The child is the father of man.
~ William Wordsworth
I didn't feel particularly close to my father.
~ Henry Louis Gates
As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.
~ Preston Manning
I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.
~ Paul Auster
My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.
~ Philip Glenister
It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.
~ Dylan McDermott
I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.
~ Stephen Colbert