My Father Quotes

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.

When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.

For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.

We go to the temple to make covenants with Heavenly Father. We return home to keep them.

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you.You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.