My Father Quotes

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.

My father was right. Unfortunately, he died before I could tell him.

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

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

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.

Father-daughter has a lot of layers, I find.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

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

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.

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.

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

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

Jesus has thrilled and satisfied the heart and mind of the Father for eternity. He must be all-sufficient for you.

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

I have teenage boys and I think teenage boys require a father to have eyeballs on them at all times.

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

My dad is a loving person. He would never disown me. At some point we will be together again. I love my father, and he loves me.

I've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life.

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn.

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.