Quotes About Authority

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

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

If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.

The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then everybody else can act like a child in relation to him.

Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.

What have you gotten me into?" I hissed at him. "Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn't I have just picked you up at the police station for underage drinking, like most fathers?

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.