My Father Quotes

My fathers peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.

I personally believe that the writing of personal and family histories will do more to turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to children than almost anything we can do

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray;The king came not. They called him deadAnd made his eldest son one daySlave in his father's stead.

The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

We know the Lord makes His servants bold. The young boy Joseph who saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a grove of trees was transformed into a spiritual giant.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

War is the father and king of all.

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

I baptize you not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil. (Ego baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli.)

We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother.

[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at McCormick Theological Seminary.

[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

Father: Why did you not become mine God!? God: Because you did not believe in me.

Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.

You sure you want to cross me?" In that moment she's her father's daughter.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.

Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.

Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild.

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

As a father, I wanted to make a movie that my kids can love.

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

My father has created an enormous business and he's created an enormous brand for himself, and I'm contributing to the business that he's built every day at The Trump Organization

Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

If you don't like your sister or don't get along with your father, let's find out if you like yourself. Let's not sugarcoat anything about it.