My Father Quotes

I am just an earthly sinful father & I love my kids so much it hurts. How could I not trust a heavenly, perfect Father who loves me infinitely more than I will ever love my kids?

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

My father was a dentist, and I always thought that he was one of the 10. It's an interesting way to personalize and humanize, which is one of the most important aspects of communication.

My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers.

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra.

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way.

I wish my father could be around.

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese.

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

I and the Father are not-two!

I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.

I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

I was very dawn to people I loved, to my family, to my father, to my sister, to my brothers.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.

I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

"My father," she admitted, "was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured." She paused. "Though he did die."

I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.

What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart...and your father casts you out...and you fall.

No mother, no father, no Sight.

My father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I'm much more into revenge.

My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.

Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.

Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

My father? My father left when I was quite young. Well actually, he was asked to leave. He had trouble metabolizing alcohol.

My father and mother separated when I was two months old.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline and it taught me to control my temperament.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

[My father] was not a musical man.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.