My Father Quotes

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

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.

My father was an agnostic.

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.'

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

I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

I'm born to be a father. And I've been looking forward to this all my life.

Pure energy is the father of creation.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

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.

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.

As a father ,supports his sons, so let the eldest support his younger brothers, and let them also in accordance with the law behave towards their eldest brother as sons ,behave.

I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.

My knees on the ground, dear father, don't let me break, please make me stronger.

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.

Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.

Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.

While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.

I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.