My Father Quotes

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.

My father has been the real anchor of the family. Hes the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

I never exploited my father’s role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.

My father speaks for himself, through his music.

I've never read one book about my father.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.

The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.

I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.

If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership . . .that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven.

The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.

..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

...it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

I always play with words, now i'm out of words i don't know how to describe you because you're my Father.. But surely i can say i love you

Your father is the only God. You can also become god but you must follow a simple rule and let that rule be made up of love.

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

When I was small I felt like a Superhero as my father threw me up in the air.Now after reaching this success peak I unmask - Real Superhero made me Superhero!

The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.

To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice.

Fatherhood is sacred.

The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.

I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother.

To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.

If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.