My Father Quotes
My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!
"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."
"Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood..."
One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.
Not once does the Bible report that (Jesus) rushed anywhere. He was often busy, but never in a mad dash. And yet He perfectly accomplished all the Father designed for Him to do.
Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.
I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.
When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.
The only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive.
I would never get married while my father is still alive because I wouldn't want him to walk me down the aisle.
I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.
My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.
Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son.
My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.
I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films, and I'm always surprised at how good they are.
I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and he tries to explain it to me, and I find it terrifying.
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'
Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place.
I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.
I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.
I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.
My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who's the best man now?
My father was on the Alcoholics Anonymous wishlist. My mother was on... parole. And lithium.
My parents got divorced. Early and ugly. My mum was nuts so I lived with my dad. We used to play a father/son games. Pin the blame on me, rock, paper, get me another beer, casino night.
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.
My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.
He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.
I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.
In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.
My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.
Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.
