My Father Quotes

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

My father is also gifted at business, which is a blessing and a curse, because if you have the kind of mind that he does where you can do anything very well, that in its own way is sort of limiting.

I've been a long-distance father.

Success has many fathers; failures have none.

My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being at all.

I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

Father, perfect my trust;Let my spirit feel in death,That her feet are firmly setOn the rock of a living faith!

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

Fathers should speak with their children.

There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds. This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!

I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart.

As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.

My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. His only condition while allowing me to come to Mumbai was that my mother must accompany me.

In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much.

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public service than by his former lucrative corporate jobs.

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books more or less in that area, too.

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.

Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!

What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [...] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing.

My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.

Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie - except her man.