My Father Quotes

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

It's not who you are, but whose you are that counts. Because God is your heavenly Father, doors of opportunity will open for you.

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.

All surfeit is the father of much fast.

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.

Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity

We have trials to face because our Heavenly Father loves us. His purpose is to help us qualify for the blessing of living with Him and His Son, Jesus Christ, forever in glory and in families.

We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His desire is to grant us that sacred wish for unity out of His love for us.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

"I'm a victim of sexual discrimination." "No, you're the victim of a cruel sexual experiment performed by your mother and father.

I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.

You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.

I could only relate [to the family] that I, the father of three sons, could hardly imagine what it would be to lose one, far less three of my boys, in such a cruel and senseless manner.

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

Magnify the father, why bother with something lesser?

My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool.

I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel.

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

Every person is born from an natural disposition, and the mother and father will make him into a Christian. So, I do believe that we are all born as Muslims, and, as we mature, we make decisions.

The guides from the book of Joshua will combine to provide the most powerful source of courage and strength there is: faith in our Heavenly Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice.

In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.