My Father Quotes

My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).

Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.

Fathers always play mahagurus to their children, and I am no exception.

My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.

What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

Fathers and mothers,” she found herself saying, “leave their mark, no matter if we’ve known them a lifetime or only a day.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.

When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.

Your father leaving your family, that's your bedrock for all your future relationships and that's your security when you're a kid.

Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe.

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

right now,I am my father

I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.

EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.

To mothers who are raising their children without a father in the home, I promise you that as you speak of Jesus Christ, you will feel the power of heaven blessing you.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla

It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.

Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.

My father...made us shop at Goodwill. I found things to wear and got Best Dressed (in the yearbook) two years in a row. I had lemons, so I made lemonade.

It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children.

Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say.

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

My father always used to say to me, it doesn’t matter what the profession is, but if they’re the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch.

My father was an extraordinary man.

I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father.

It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.

Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.