My Father Quotes

Tell me,” Isabelle said.“Who it was. That my father had the affair with.

The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.

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 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.

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres.

My father was not a political animal.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.

I am in competition only with my father and my uncle (Mukesh Bhatt) because they taught me what I know today. I only believe in making movies with integrity.

In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

Listen to the Lord's appeal:...Come, then, return to me and learn to know me as your father, who repays good for evil, love for injury, and boundless charity for piercing wounds.

Do not be afraid! Our Father is patient, he loves us, he gives us Jesus to guide us on the way which leads to the promised land. Jesus is the light who brightens the darkness. He is our peace.

How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!

No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.

Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

The Bible reveals the Father's overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God.

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.

I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I was my father's son. I was slick. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

Let's start off with my father being a mailman.

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

My father is a straight- talking guy. He's always been. He has a history of that in business as a personality for the last 35 years.

If you feel that Heavenly Father is not listening to your petitions, ask yourself if you are listening to the cries of the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the afflicted all around you.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.