539 quotes found
“I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.”
“The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to playing cowboys is my father, Lloyd Bridges. When I was a little kid, I loved to dress up like a cowboy - put on the boots, hat, and walk aro...”
“I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.”
“When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.”
“I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and...”
“My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.”
“My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.”
“All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.”
“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.”
“My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.”
“An angry father is most cruel towards himself.”
“Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.”
“It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.”
“As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.”
“My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.”
“Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.”
“I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.”
“A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.”
“Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.”
“And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.”
