Father Quotes

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.

As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.

Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.

I'm at my 3 year-olds year-end concert. It's full of very off-key, mostly unfocused children, but this father is still beaming. Must be how God feels on Sunday.

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].

Father, you left me, but I never left you.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

My father used to beat me with his belt...while it was still on him.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time.

Heavenly Father offers to you the greatest gift of all—eternal life—and the opportunity and infinite blessing of your own “happily ever after.”

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him,. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

Jesus did not have human blood: He was born of the virgin Mary with the divine blood of His Father.

I was just talking to Benedict [Cumberbatch] who's got a little baby and knows his father lives in his phone. We as humans are evolving really fast, so everyday we're hit with that.

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.