My Father Quotes
Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.
My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.
Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
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.
My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'
It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.
Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.
Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.
There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.
A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!
You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day.
In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.
My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.
There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.
Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.
I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.
A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl
That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.
But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.
Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.
The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.
We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)
New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.
A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.
The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.
I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.
The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.
I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.
My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.
The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.
Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.