My Father Quotes

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?

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.

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

My father was a small claims court jester.

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father and she hung up the phone on me.

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

There is Peter Graf, Steffi's father, with his head on his chin.

It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.

I like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father.

My father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong.

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

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.

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 mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.

I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

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

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 always said, 'Bet on yourself.'

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.

Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the glory of God the Father.

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel.

Instead of loving the Trinity of God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), we tend to love a different trinity: Me, myself, and I.