My Father Quotes

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

In terms of my father, if you have 4 children that work in film, then there certainly was a happy, positive influence from him because none us became an accountant.

My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the developing world, helping farmers diversify their crops and stuff like that.

Fathers teach their best lessons to their children by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.

It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without losing yourself as well.

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.

My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken.

On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.

[Barack Obama] and Michelle, in my heart, this is my personal feeling, epitomize what my mother and my father were. They are community organizers on a global level.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

We're Democrats [with my father]. So, of course he would [support me]. Absolutely.

I look at Barack [Obama], he's slim like my father, and Michelle's [Obama] full figured like my mother. And I just love it.

[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more.

Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are.

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that [Adolf] Hitler has a gift of touching the important points, the essential points.

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

In our house, mother’s day is every day. Father’s day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

Father, thanks for reaching out and lovingly,saying that you've always been proud of me,I needed to feel that so desperately,you're always alive inside of me.

I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

From my father's side I got the strength, the mental toughness, the heart, the courage.

My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.

I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

As a father of young girls, I want to publicly thank all women who dress and carry themselves like ladies. Your example is a gift.

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.