Quotes tagged ‘father’

“You have your mother’s common sense but your father’s devilment. I see them fighting. Let your mother win.”

— Steven Knight, Polly Gray, Helen McCrory, imdb.com

“My father started using drugs again. We did drugs together and I found myself in a miserable situation. He started visiting me all day to get high and do drugs with me. He came up to me just to get some shit, and that’s all. I was trying to kick this habit out of my life and here comes this man aski…”

— Layne Staley, northwestmusicscene.net

“Sorry I'm leaving you with the mean man.”

— Maci Bookout, imdb.com

“That night my father stood there, looking up at the sky the way he always did. But suddenly I realized I wasn't afraid of him in quite the same way anymore. The funny thing is, I felt like I lost something.”

— Carol Black, Neal Marlens, imdb.com

“My dad always told Sasha and me that it was our duty as citizens of the world to keep up with the news. When I was little and I was in his car, there were always those stories on the radio. Something happens 1,000 miles away or down the block. Some kind of horror I couldn't even wrap my head around.…”

— Scott M. Gimple, Tyreese, Chad L. Coleman, imdb.com

“Your father isn’t here to rescue your son. He’s here to murder him.”

— David H. Goodman, Robert Hull, Peter Pan, Robbie Kay, imdb.com

“Cyril: Krieger's father was a Nazi scientist! Malory: And JFK's father was a bootlegger. Cyril: That's like comparing apples to... Nazi oranges!”

— Adam Reed, Cyril Figgis (voice), Chris Parnell, imdb.com

“You know what dude, hear me out for a second okay. Now technically, that stain did appear to me. Also I am familiar with carpentry and I don't know who my father is. So, am I the messiah? I don't know, I could be, I'm not ruling it out”

— Charlie Day, Charlie Kelly, Charlie Day, imdb.com

“My dad was domineering. He had a different set of values, but also a very stern individual. My dad drank a lot, and when he drank a lot, he was abusive to my mother and to me. But I never swung at my dad, because I loved him for what he stood for.”

— John Wayne Gacy, chicago.cbslocal.com

“My mother and father used to take me to church in Mexico and Texas, were I used to live. The huge figures of saints and crucifixions. Religion played a big role in my life.”

— Richard Ramirez, evilminds.tumblr.com

“The father and mother themselves talk before the children in the most disparaging way about the teacher and the school and they are much more inclined to insult the teachers than to put their offspring across the knee and knock sound reason into him. What the little fellow hears at home does not ten…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“With a father like Unoka, Okonkwo did not have the start in life which many young men had. He neither inherited a barn nor a title, nor even a young wife. But in spite of these disadvantages, he had begun even in his father’s lifetime to lay the foundations of a prosperous future. It was slow and pa…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“‘Then listen to me,' he said and cleared his throat. 'It's true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother's hut. A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refug…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“There is never going to be a new Pelé because my father and my mother closed the machine.”

— Pele, the-talks.com

“What matters is being a good father and a good husband—just being connected to family as much as possible. Being a dad is more important than football, more important than anything. I adore children. I love the fact our children are part of both of us. It’s one of the most amazing things ever.”

— David Beckham, mirror.co.uk

“My dad, ex-Green Beret, thinks he's this tough guy. My dad's a softy. Mom was the one I was always afraid of.”

— Tiger Woods, cbsnews.com

“He's my best friend. And you know, having your best friend be your father is a very unique thing.”

— Tiger Woods, cbsnews.com

“My dad put on a tie every day because he had to. I put one on every day because I want to. It’s important you know that. Maybe I don’t run into burning buildings for a living, but to me, my work is challenging and exciting. I will not apologize for the fact that it’s hard to explain to people.”

— Bekah Brunstetter, Kay Oyegun, Randall Pearson, Sterling K. Brown, imdb.com

“Thank you. For doing what I couldn’t. For raising him to be the man he is. I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance to meet you, brother. I would have liked to have heard that laugh. I would have liked to have met my son’s father.”

— Dan Fogelman, Kay Oyegun, William Hill, Ron C. Jones, imdb.com

“I got this at a very hopeless time in my life. Someone very special gave it to me back in Vietnam. It’s a Buddhist symbol of purpose. I was feeling very lost when I got that. But I put it on and I moved forward. And you know when I was wearing it? The day you were born. The moment you came out, my n…”

— Jas Waters, K.J. Steinberg, Jack Pearson, Milo Ventimiglia, imdb.com