Father Quotes

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.

I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to my heavenly home and Father's house.

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

Not having a father helping you grow into manhood and teaching you those things about how to be a man hurts. It hurt my brothers because their fathers weren't involved in their lives.

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!

No word makes me happier than the word "daddy" when it's directed to me.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

My father is a guy who will fight and he will fight for America and he's always fought for himself.

My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers.

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

The Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father’s tenderness and love towards each of us.

I’m His girl. You don’t mess with God’s girl. I got a sign on my forehead that says: You better be nice to me, for my Father owns the world.

It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near to Him so that He can draw near to us.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.

We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.

Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.

There's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder.

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.