My Father Quotes

A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon

It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

I have more pictures of my children than my father ever looked at me.

A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'

We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.

Making and cheerfully keeping our covenants gives validity and life to the vital sacred and saving ordinances we need to receive in order to obtain all that the Father hath.

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.

My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

Heavenly Father loves you—each of you. That love never changes.

Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.

For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world.

Thanks to my father, I didn't have to face the tough side of life. Probably that's why I always chose love over money.

God has proven himself as a faithful father. Now it falls to us to be trusting children.

The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

In the cafe bathroom drinking free tap water Thinking; "Damn, I should've been a better father to my daughter"

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.

When ALL is said and DONE, What will matter to our Heavenly Father will be how well we have Kept Our Covenants and how much we have tried to follow the example of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone after she was gone.

My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the same needs and wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.

At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before.

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.