Quotes About Father

Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

We're Democrats [with my father]. So, of course he would [support me]. Absolutely.

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

Father, thanks for reaching out and lovingly,saying that you've always been proud of me,I needed to feel that so desperately,you're always alive inside of me.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

I've never read one book about my father.

It means everything. Making my father happy, that's my biggest joy.

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.

My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.

My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.

All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.

I would like to understand my father.

The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.

I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.

My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.