My Father Quotes

I enjoy walking by myself on the same paths where, as a little boy, I delighted in following my father around.

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state.

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

Mel Gibson's father doesn't think there was a Holocaust? Great. I don't think there's a movie. We're even.

My father was a doctor so I was around death all my life. So, I was very used to it because he was a f-king doctor.

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

My father said about money: 'You have to have some. But you don't have to have all of it. Just be honest with yourself.'

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.

My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.

This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?

My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in an old people's home and stop being strong and lose his voice.

My father combined many of the elements that were feared in the culture, but also he was a warm figure, a figure we needed. We depended on him to give us a little bit of strength and courage.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

Success has many fathers.

I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.

I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise

Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good.