My Father Quotes

Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.

Everything they do, from smiling to crying, feels like a blessing. Being a father feels amazing. This has been the most spiritual moment in my life.

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

Every dad is the family role model, whether he wants the job or not.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!

I attribute all of my success to my Catholic faith. My faith has given me the ability to be a good father, a good husband and most importantly a good person.

Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.

When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.

The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself.

There is no safer place for your hopes and dreams than in the loving hands of your faithful Father.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.

I'm the father of four daughters.

In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you"....(Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating)

Never trust a woman whose father calls her 'Princess'. Chances are she believes it.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise),.4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.