My Father Quotes

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him.

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.

It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.

I saw The Empire Strikes Back the week that it came out. My father was a huge Star Wars fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

My father had very little formal education.

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.

My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

Let's learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

My father believed in me many times more than I believed in myself.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

The similarities between me and my father are different.

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

Children leave. And parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your father. And he will always leave a light on for you.

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

In humans, the family prevents infanticide. Next to language, the core family, consisting of a mother, a father and children, is the greatest difference between us and other primates.

If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.

The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

The love of a father is one of nature's greatest masterpieces.

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.

My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.

It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.