Father Quotes
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He begat our spirits as well as the Spirit of Jesus His first Born.
For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.
I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.
People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.
Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...
Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.
Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.
Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.
As soon as my mother saw my father, she said, "Oh! I think I'm gonna marry that man." That's the reason I've been married four times, because I think it's that easy ... it really is not.
'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.
But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."
"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."
The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.
Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.
As her father had so often said... Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.
Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.
That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension--but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within our hearts that will change our lives forever!
Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.
Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.
The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.
The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.
I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.