My Father Quotes

One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.

When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.

Thanks, Dad," she whispered in his ear. Then recovering her composure, she knelt before him and said, "I give thanks, my Father. May your decision be proved right and true.

How deep the Father's love for us, How vast beyond all measure That He should give His only Son To make a wretch His treasure.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. —Elana's father

Father Jude Nnorom also criticized his church leaders, saying the simple lifestyle followed by Pope Francis should challenge African bishops to ask themselves.

Father Jude Nnorom says he hopes the pope's travels in Africa will help end all the wars ravaging the continent.

I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.

There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd as soon let it lie than find out who my mother's father was.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

I have an excellent father, his strength is making me stronger.

Were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the household, this is our fight, and that is why I'm running for president.

The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.

My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.

The only thing intimidating about Cube is that he's the father of gangsta' rap. You just worry about getting your lines right, or he might shoot you.

If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able to see for crying, but I would have considered that a duty.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.

I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.

His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.

My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter.

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

I had a great family. My father was in the Air Force, so we were always disciplined, goal oriented.

When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'

You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.

My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

I look up to my father, because he's very, very experimental in his cuisine, and he puts a lot of love into things. He's the best. To me.

In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."

My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam.