My Father Quotes

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam.

We must prepare ourselves to assist the missionaries in finding those of our Heavenly Father's children who will embrace the message of the Restoration.

What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

Our Heavenly Father does bless us when we show our love for Him in all things.

[I want to be remembered] as a great servant of God who tried to give back as much as possible, and as a great father and husband.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.

Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

My mother and father took me in and provided everything for me - the love, nurturing, basic necessities - to give me the space to grow wings, so that when I went out into the world, I could fly.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s.

What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country.

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.

Children are a sacred gift from a loving Heavenly Father. Children are an heritage of the Lord (Ps. 127:3). The more I think about children, the more I worry about parents.

If the Christians continue to desert Jesus Christ in His temple, will not the Heavenly Father take away from them His well-beloved Son Whom they neglect?

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.

O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

My father builds homes. So I grew up around the idea that you can take a piece of land, and you can bulldozer it and build new homes on it. You can create something new.

Because as a father of three kids, I know how important good seeds are for providing healthy food for my family.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

Most pro bodybuilders have bad relationships with their fathers. We want to prove something.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

Its a rare thing when a father and son can share the same experience. My father and I have seen all 19 Bond films together, two or three times.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

I've been involved with law enforcement for some time. My father was in law enforcement. I went through the training for Homeland Security. I enjoy it very much.

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values.

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

My father was the best person i've ever known.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.