Father Quotes

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.

To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.

I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

I still have a video of my father, which I watch before every game I play for Brazil. It gives me strength, makes me determined.

To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven.

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven's children, Satan's temptations lose power in your life.

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.

Unconditional love will turn a loser into a winner. You have no idea how many times your heavenly Father has wanted to reach out and grasp you in his arms when you felt like you blew it!

Your Heavenly Father needs you. His work, under the direction of our Savior Jesus Christ, needs what you are uniquely prepared to give.

Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.

I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver.

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

It was a marriage of convenience, as my father had a blister on his big toe and couldn't travel far to find a girl.

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur

Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt.

The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.

Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.

My father did everything for me. He was awesome.

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help us tell the story.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.