My Father Quotes

The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

No word makes me happier than the word "daddy" when it's directed to me.

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!

Not having a father helping you grow into manhood and teaching you those things about how to be a man hurts. It hurt my brothers because their fathers weren't involved in their lives.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to my heavenly home and Father's house.

Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.

It is imperative that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as missionaries who are as faithful to the Father and His gospel as Jesus was in His own time and place.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . .

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

Camping in the backyard last night for Father's Day! Wrestling, stories, s'mores...it was awesome!

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!

I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.