My Father Quotes

I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, .. I think people have the same reaction. It reminds you of what it was like to be a kid, where everything is carefree and fun.

Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.

I could not, as my father's daughter, remain indifferent to all that was going on.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.

I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).

The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine

I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.

A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

I'm also a devoted father, and you see that side of me at the same time.

Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.

The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally.

I guess the biggest issue my husband and I are going to have is how do we raise the baby... because he's Jewish and I'm Protestant and the baby's father is Catholic.

My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.

...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity

I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.

My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad." That was his humor.

Angelina Jolie’s older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it’s not that weird. After all, he could be the father.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.

It's never too late to make the right decision in your life. I want fathers to go grab their sons, tell them you love them and be more involved in their lives.

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, So I make an idle boast; Jesus of the twice-turned cheek Lamb of God, although I speak With my mouth thus, in my heart Do I play a double part.

My father hauled boxes so I could get an education and earn enough money to pay someone to make me lift weights.

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.

My father wasn't much for show business. He was an insurance man - very well-liked, very warm. He had a lot of friends.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

What I learned from my father is to think big.

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.

My father is an amazing fighter and what he's already accomplished is nothing short of remarkable.

[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

They tell me 'find God' like I don't know where He at. And if He lost, then why we followin' Him? Just acknowledge the fact that a Father exists, And a Devil's alive...I'm just caught in the mix.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?