My Father Quotes

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.

[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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly.

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

A father should be his son's first hero, and his daughters first love.

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

No matter how old you become, I'll always hold your hand tenderly. just like how I held it on the day that you were born. I love you, son.

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

He was like a second father to me (of George Halas)

My father used to think the word 'legend' was tossed around far too often. I want to say today that in the opinion of his family, my father was a legend.

When I die, I want to see Malcom X, Lumumba, my father, and I want to be able to look them in the eye

We've got to have a deep, intimate relationship with the Father if we're going to lead like Jesus.

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.

The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.