My Father Quotes

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.

The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24

My father always said, 'It ain't bragging if it's true.'

I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I remember cutting out pictures and hiding them in my room.

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

Adrian ordered a martini, earning disapproving looks from his father and me. "It's barely noon," said Nathan. "I know," said Adrian. "I'm surprised I held out that long too.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, "My boy's got learnin'!"

My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'

Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father.

I go all the way back to the Founding Fathers. I see the miracle of the founding of this country. It is so special, it's so unique. What needs to be emulated around the world is the United States.

Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father.

I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron)

A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.

I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both.

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.

It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.

The imprint of the father, remains forever on the life of the child.

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.