My Father Quotes

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

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

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

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)

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love.

The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That's why four leaf clovers are so lucky, you get a bonus Jesus.

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.

I want to trace my father, could you suggest a good marker pen?

He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you’ve shown me. (Acheron)

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in a dream and we hear the apocalyptic horsemen in the air.

Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased

Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying?

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'

God Himself was crucified with Christ, for Christ was one with the Father.

Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies, than we are ready to believe or receive.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

My father and brothers were coal miners.

I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.