My Father Quotes

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

A moment might be a thousand different things.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence.

My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.

My father used to take off his belt and give me a crack. And I'm all right.

My father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National.

I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.

He stands up for himself. He's a fighter. That's who my father is.

I think what my father is saying is I want a fair election. I want a fair election.

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that Germany should have a great interest to leave the war with a peace under conditions.

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including vice president, that I am more proud to wear than that of a senator of the United States.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.

I think my father is probably the best coach ever because, if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.

In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.

[Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.

Postponement: The father of failure.

There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. "Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me.

Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.

No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers.

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.