Father Quotes - page 4

Work is often the father of pleasure. (Voltaire)
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. View quote
Quentin Crisp
My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks. View quote
Emir Kusturica
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. View quote
Josh Billings
Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen - or better still, talk - that their parents were just as bad. View quote
John Ralston Saul
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. View quote
Peter De Vries
I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father. View quote
Annette Funicello
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. View quote
Robert Bly
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first. (Hulk Hogan)
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father. View quote
Herbie Hancock
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play. View quote
Beverly Cleary
My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, "You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you." View quote
Bill Cosby
My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful. View quote
Bill Cosby
My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially. View quote
Valerie Trierweiler
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole. View quote
Justin Halpern
I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently. View quote
Justin Halpern
Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published. (Dick Bruna)
My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm! View quote
Dick Bruna
There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child. View quote
Alice Sebold
My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period. View quote
Ivanka Trump
I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends. View quote
Ivanka Trump