My Father Quotes
We go to the temple to make covenants with Heavenly Father. We return home to keep them.
For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.
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 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!
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.
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.
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.
On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.
I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.
Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.
Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.
I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.
My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.
If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.
Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green.
Humbly serving all with their beauty, flowers say more to us about God than anything else. Each one brings a message that the Heavenly Father is right here.
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel
Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue.
It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy.
I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.
You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.
Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.
My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.
My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.
My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.
The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.
I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.
The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.
Experiences are everything. And businesses must create experiences that mean something. If necessity is the mother of invention, then vision is the father of innovation.
One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.
My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.
God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.