My Father Quotes

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

He was a father. That's what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.

Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

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.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

Therefore run together as into one temple of God, as to one altar, as to one Jesus Christ, who came forth from one Father, and is with and has gone to one.

When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.

My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.

If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart.

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

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so thats when I kind of fell in love with acting.

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

My father, to whom I owe so much, never told me the difference between right and wrong; now I think that's why I remain so greatly in his debt.

After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.

My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know the "Jesus" he shed tears for.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

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.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what I want for Father's Day, darling. A gas powered chainsaw.