My Father Quotes

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.

I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

Though the Holy Spirit is God, equal in essence to the Father and the Son, yet his role is consistently to defer honor, to seek to bring about the glory of another.

A child's cry touches a father's heart.

Let me go to the house of the Father.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.

A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.

I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.

When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me.

My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

Jesus did not live in reaction to the devil. He lived in response to the Father.

My father said, Bring along your best girl. This is something you say to a pimp!

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.