My Father Quotes

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

The similarities between me and my father are different.

You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

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.

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

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

I remember distinctly telling my father-in-law, barring a miracle, we're going to have to terminate the pregnancy. Her health has to come first

My father always told me to wisen up, son. Cause if you hung with nine broke friends, you're bound to be the tenth one.

There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!

There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might and endless majesty.

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

My father ran the gamut: a favorite of his was Josef Hofmann, but there was also Friedman, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Lhevinne, Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, etc.

Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.