My Father Quotes

Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please.

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.

She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.

I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies

Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.

I encourage all Americans to express admiration and appreciation to fathers.

For me, I learned from my father that when it's over, it's over.

[My father] taught me (at least he showed me) a dignified way to be a former president is that once you're off the stage, you're off the stage.

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.

Lynet scowled. "I’m just so tired of young knights wearing their father’s armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.

Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.

Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.

Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.

You can’t convince me that the Founding Fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede.

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.

I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't think others know a lot about it.

Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.

He who is our Eternal Father has blessed you with miraculous powers of mind and body. He never intended that you should be less than the crowning glory of His creations.

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

I've taken care of it," I said My father looked at me, shocked. Then I realized "taken care of" had a very specific meaning in his line of work. "No, no, I mean he's gone.

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.

I'm also the father of three beautiful children and I've been married to my wife for 18 years, and we've been together for 20 years, so I have a very tender side.

I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're a regular guy.

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

Let us remember: trials are an evidence of a Father's love.

The angel is actually the message himself. His appearance is the message that heaven is intensely concerned with us, and that God cares for us like a father for his children.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money.

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.