My Father Quotes

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.

The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.

Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

My father was very outwardly religious.

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids! :)

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.

You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.

A father is someone who can't get on the phone, in the bathroom or out of debt.

If I could choose the perfect Dad There's no one I would rather Have Dad, than you Dad Coz you go further, Father Happy Birthday Father

If I could choose from all the fathers in the world, Dad, I'd choose you!

Dad, because you are my father it's been easy to believe in God.

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.

When I was a kid, I always saw these pictures of a man called Bob Gordon with a baritone saxophone, who I understood was my father. Turns out he wasn't. He was my mother's first husband.

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.

[CNN, USA Today] they've got 24 hours to fill. You know, how many times can Anna Nicole Smith's baby get a new father?

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.

Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

He's (his father Jorge Posada IV) happy for me. He remembers all of my big games. When I hit my first home run in the World Series, he was here, and he cried. It's like I'm living his dream.

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.