Father Quotes

Just talk to me as a father ... not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

Doubt is the father of invention.

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

My father started me singing in church.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.

A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death.

The child shall become father to the man.

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.

I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.

My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.

In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.