My Father Quotes

My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.

The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.

Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.

His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.

Either things grow and change or they die.

She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.

So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

He had never even glimpsed her.

I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

You are your father's daughter,' he said, the skin around his eyes tightening. 'Trent is his father's son. Apart, you are annoying. Together...you have the potential to be a problem.

I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.

Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.

I am my father's son. My sticking to my guns and doing it my way, and standing firm - that's definitely from him. And the music side, I was so lucky to have a dad that was as cool as he was.

My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.

It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick.

Ralph Angel was such a great character. The single-father image has been portrayed in so many ways so having the ability to be a part of that narrative excites me!

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable, my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't.

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

And," he continued, his strange smile gleaming, "as I see it, our hearts are not so different in size. I murdered my father. You murdered yours. Is that something you did with a large heart?

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

My father instilled in me a love for racing.

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

A family needs a father to anchor it.

Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father.

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

Children deserve to be reared in a home with a father and a mother.

Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.

I'm an entrepreneur and I love business. That's what I've always done. I went to school for that. My father took me out and said, 'You're gonna be here like everybody else.'

It's really important for boys to have a father around, or a grandfather, or an uncle - a man they can really relate to who loves them, and who they know loves them.

Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.