My Father Quotes

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.

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.

When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father.

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.

What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.

The One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now.

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He begat our spirits as well as the Spirit of Jesus His first Born.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

My father was an agnostic.

Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.

My father would say, 'Ronnie, you're going to be someone special. Whatever it is that you want to do, you're going to be the best in the world at it.'

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

Being true to our beliefs—even when doing so isn’t popular, easy, or fun—keeps us safely on the path that leads to eternal life with our Heavenly Father.

The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.

Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.