Father Quotes

I think I’m even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I’m less caught up with my career.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

My dad used to say, ‘Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn’t influence your intelligence.’

I didn’t grow up wealthy. We couldn’t even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

What I’m trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, ‘We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we’re going to perish as fools.’

The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don’t forgive yourself, you’re not going to forgive your kids, either.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I’ve never gotten over it.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I never had a speech from my father ‘this is what you must do or shouldn’t do’ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.

Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?