Top 64 My Father Always Said Quotes
#1. My father always said: 'If you want to know someone, live together on a boat.'
Christian Camargo
#2. My father always said, he said, Do not peddle in the affairs of wizards ...
Terry Pratchett
#3. My father always said, 'It ain't bragging if it's true.'
Rex Smith
#4. My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
KaDee Strickland
#5. My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
Patricia Briggs
#6. My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.
Emilia Clarke
#8. My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'
Chazz Palminteri
#9. Everyone at home was very supportive, but my father always said that all he wanted me to do was give it my best effort without worrying about the results.
Sachin Tendulkar
#10. My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'
Twyla Tharp
#11. It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing
it's another! It's always something.
Gilda Radner
#14. My father always said that you cannot graft a culture of science and engineering onto an Iron Age society. And so it's proving.' Bisesa studied him. 'You'll have to tell me about your father.
Arthur C. Clarke
#15. My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.'
Alexandra Guarnaschelli
#16. My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.
Terrence Howard
#17. My father always said, 'Bet on yourself.'
Jon Voight
#18. My Father always said 'Man can sooner reconcile the galaxy than two women!
J.J. Snow
#19. My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.
Orson Scott Card
#20. My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.
Ken Venturi
#21. My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur
Wayne Huizenga
#22. You know, Ian," Antonia commented, "my father always said a person needs a reason to leave and a reason to go. But I think sometimes the reason to go is so big, it fills you so much, that you don't even think of why you are leaving, you just do.
Erica Bauermeister
#23. Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.
Jane Fonda
#24. Count your blessings, my father always said. It shames you, to count yours by the hardships of other people.
Anna Quindlen
#25. My father always said that to push a rock an inch in a lifetime was the same as throwing a hundred pebbles into the sea every day. Big change comes slowly, but it will come
Lucinda Riley
#26. My father always said never offer a choice if there's only one right answer
Stacey Kade
#27. For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had.
Jane Leavy
#28. As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.
Jackie Chan
#29. I would prefer you did not apologize for anyone else," she said. "My father always says that if we were as quick to own our own faults as we are to apologize for those of others, society might truly advance.
Helen Simonson
#30. I called up and said, 'Dad, I won a MacArthur.' My father goes: 'I always thought your sister would win that,' and I said, 'Dad, just say congratulations and keep your private thoughts private.' At that point he laughed, then burst into tears, and it was obvious that he was so happy and proud.
Bonnie Bassler
#31. The empty rooms always had a terribly depressing effect upon my father when he considered, he said, that the person who dwelt in them had to fill them solely with his own fantasies, with fantastic objects, in order not to go out of his mind.
Thomas Bernhard
#32. My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.
Vidya Balan
#33. One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends with his family. At one point he had thought about being a musician, but he said, I'm not going to do that because I'd be on the road all the time and I wouldn't be with my family.
Dean Ornish
#34. My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.
Daniel Woodrell
#35. My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."
Robin Williams
#36. As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend your taxes, it always seems to go to some guy in a leather chair downtown you never heard of.
Glenn Reynolds
#37. As for myself, I have found my perfect pattern in Jesus, who said, "The Father has not left Me
alone, for I always do those things that please Him." I am no longer motivated by personal ambition.
I have discovered a sweeter, purer motive: simply to please my Father.
Derek Prince
#38. My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.
Gabriel Macht
#39. My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'
Archie Panjabi
#40. I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.
Susana Martinez
#41. My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
A.A. Gill
#42. It was exceedingly improbable that he would ever see the men again, but, as my father said, you never knew. Always worth approaching every man you met as if he might become your best friend in the world.
Jonathan Franzen
#43. My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
George McGovern
#44. My father was a North Somerset fisherman. He always said if the apostles needed the Lord to tell them where to cast their nets, then he could do no better than to ask the Almighty for direction as well.
Julie Klassen
#45. Dealing with the Scots, my father had always said, was like trying to geld wildcats with your teeth, but luckily the wildcats spent much of their time fighting each other. Once
Bernard Cornwell
#46. That's another thing about my father. He made me very conscious of the fact I wasn't very good and I had to prove to him that I was good. And that hung with me, and I always wanted to play golf with him and show him. He said Never, Never tell anyone how good you are. Show them!
Arnold Palmer
#47. My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
Carine Roitfeld
#48. My god," Bankole said. "This country has slipped back two hundred years." "Things were better when I was little," Emery said. "My mother always said they would get better again. Good times would come back. She said they always did. My father would shake his head and not say anything.
Octavia E. Butler
#49. My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.
Stephen Colbert
#50. My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#51. My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.
Ivy Baker Priest
#52. I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.'
Kym Whitley
#53. My father said I was perfectly suited for Washington because I've always worked around nuts.
Leon Panetta
#54. You're the man now,' she said to me after my father died, 'you're the man.' Then she turned to Popeye, our calico tom, and said, 'You're the cat now, Popeye, you're the cat,' as if she'd always worn a veil over her face and had never known we were men and cats all along.
David Sedaris
#55. What have you done to her?" Auric said harshly. "Why does everyone always blame me?" grumbled my father. "Because you're the devil." "Good point. And in this case, true.
Eve Langlais
#56. My father used to say to me, "It doesn't matter what the profession is, but if they're the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch." And I said, "Really, dad? Even like someone who makes pencils?" "Even someone who makes pencils, it will be fascinating to watch."
Nicolas Cage
#57. She smiled and combed my hair with her fingers. That was always her thing. She looked straight into my eyes and said calmly, "Your father was beautiful." She didn't even hesitate. I wanted to ask her what happened to all that beauty.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#58. My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.
Maggie Stiefvater
#59. My father was a minister for 50 years (with) Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always said, "Amen. God is love." I thought God is love was one word. Like "Godislove." And it took me a long time to learn what that really meant.
Denzel Washington
#60. My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'
Gore Vidal
#61. My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.
Etgar Keret
#62. My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
Walter Mosley
#63. A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kissed me since you were a little boy.' It went straight to my heart, and I kissed him whenever I saw him after that, and my sons and I always kiss whenever we meet.
Terry Wogan
#64. My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right ...
Patricia Wentworth
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