#Father Quotes

“My best training came from my father.”

“When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.”

“My father was the best person i've ever known.”

“My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.”

“I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.”

“My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.”

“I have an excellent father, his strength is making me stronger.”

“Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”

“My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.”

“I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.”

“My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.”

“My father used to call me the laughing hyena.”

“My Father... He was there when I didn't understand, he was there when I was wrong, he was there when I cried, he was there when I lied. For some reason my dad was always there, when I needed him the most. His love was never ending. And now that he's gone there is an emptiness in my world, but not in my heart.”

“My heart belongs to daddy.”

“I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.][Lat., Laetus sumLaudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]”

“I love [my father] so much with all my heart and my soul with every bone in my body I love him so much because he's done so much for me.”

“My father taught only math.”

“My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.”

“Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.”

“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.”

“As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.”

“People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.”

“My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.”

“I don't think my father was my mentor.”

“I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.”

“What do I owe my father? Everything!”

“He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that is. You see, Pop never used a tape measure. He didn't believe in it. He said he could just look at a man and tell his size, with the result that frequently he'd make a pair of pants with one trouser leg seven or eight inches longer than the other.”

“I literally didn't know my father. My mother had been a secretary, and after she and my father split, she went back to work for an advertising executive. So my older brother and I were "latch-door kids." We went home for lunch and after school by ourselves.”

“In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.”

“For the weariest road that man may wendIs forth fromn the home of his father.”

“My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.”

“Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.”

“After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.”

“When I win awards, I think of my father.”

“My father was always in good spirits, he loved football. It makes me a bit sad because if he could enjoy seeing me now, what I have achieved, that would be a highlight in his life. But I'm sure that he watches over me from above.”

“At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.”