Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guillermo del Toro

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

Guillermo del Toro

If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.

Greg Iles

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels,

Grace Jones

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

Grace Paley

People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.

Grant Morrison

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

George Herbert

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

Georg Baselitz

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

Jessica Simpson

If I'm going for advice for anything in my life, I go straight to my father because he has the answers.

Jennie Garth

When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.

Mahmoud Abbas

I don't want to talk about whether firing these rockets is important or not, but I wanted to talk about the destructive consequences. No one of us could forget last week's tragedy when a father and his son were killed by a rocket.

Hunter S. Thompson

I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting.

Hulk Hogan

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

Our father was a Finnish man, very reserved. He didn't really talk about feelings.

Our father always said, 'She'll come back to us,'

Natalie Cole

God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless. We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That thy gifts to us may be used for others. Amen.

My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.

Brandon Lee

I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.

Bill Callahan

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.

Alexander the Great

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Alexander Skarsgard

My plan was never to be an actor like my father.

Alexander Skarsgard

I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.

Don Rickles

I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.

James E. Faust

Each of us is a unique creation of our Heavenly Father. No two of us are completely alike. No one else has exactly the same gifts and talents that we have been given. We should increase those talents and gifts and use them to leverage our uniqueness.

We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.

Christopher Stanley

I think in any relationship, even in the healthiest of relationships, we are all parents to each other at times. I think that's a normal, healthy sort of relationship. I think there are times when we're each a mother and a father when we need to be.

Rene Russo

I didn't have a father growing up, and I was raised with all women, and I didn't really understand men. I thought they were like women, right?

Pat Conroy

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.