Father Quotes

My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

My parents divorced, and I didn’t have much of a daddy growing up.

My old man is a man of few words.

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom’s side for not being black enough. And then I’d spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was ‘that black girl.’

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

My Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can’t hold me in these chains. I’ll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin’ my condition is the reason I must change

I’ve never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn’t just be given to me.