3608 Father Quotes for You to Enjoy

My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway. Jean-Pierre Leaud

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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. Jean de la Bruyere

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It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father. Jeanne Tripplehorn

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I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education. Jeb Bush

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My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father. Jeff Bridges

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My father Lloyd Bridges worked on a TV show called 'Sea Hunt.' He impressed upon me as a child the importance of taking care of the ocean and working together to do our part to reduce human pollution. Jeff Bridges

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I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame. Jeff Buckley

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I have a lot of my mother in me, but I was just born with the same parts as my father. I don't sound like him. I mean, I can do an impression of him right now, and I do not sound like him. I sound like me. My sense of rhythm I learned from my mother. My melodies, I think sometimes, I get from my mother. Jeff Buckley

My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that. Jeff Dunham

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Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Jeff Greenfield

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I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things. Jeff Kinney

My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every single night of his life, he has nightmares, and he wakes yelling. Jeff Lindsay

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My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? What's your schedule like?' I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, 'How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,' I'd try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps. Jeff MacNelly

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I was always interested in creative writing growing up. From junior high on, I was writing short stories. I also grew up watching movies. My father would take me to everything. Most weeks, I could open the paper having seen every movie listed. Jeff Nichols

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My father and mother have given me so much love, so much support, that it would trivialize their parenthood if I would reduce it just to basketball. But my dad does call me before and after every game. And when we lost a game we shouldn't have, he told me it wasn't my fault. And I appreciated that, because he was trying to pick me up. Jeff Van Gundy

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We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things. Jeffrey Donovan

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When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?' Jehane Noujaim

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Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it. Jehane Noujaim

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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. Jennie Garth

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. Jennifer Aniston

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I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be embracing my mortality. I told him it would keep me grounded - like when people get skull tattoos. Jennifer Connelly

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