My Father Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

[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.

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

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.

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.

[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.

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

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

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.

When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.

If I have learned anything from my SIMS family: When a child doesn't see his father enough he starts to jump up and down, then his mood level will drop until he pees himself.

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.

As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on.

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation

A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.

Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

If we had everything we wanted and needed without asking of Heavenly Father, we would lose sight of the hand of God in our lives.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Fatherhood makes you cute. Women find bumbling fathers cute and attractive.

Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.

A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.

Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.

I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.