My Father Quotes

My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.

I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.

The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.

My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

A mother's pride, a father's joy.

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.

Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father.

I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

I remember my father saying that you're about to awaken when you dream that you're dreaming.

The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.

My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out, "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.

The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

In times of trouble you can count on your self. In times of disaster you can count on your friends. In times of sorrow you can count on your Father.

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.

When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground.

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.

My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?

You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!

Which means she to deceive, father or mother?

What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?

DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.

Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd.

No .... holy father, throw away that thought. Believe not that the dribbling dart of love Can pierce a complete bosom.

I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.

The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

The child is the father of man.

My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.