My Father Quotes

In my case, my mother had to be my mother and father, so I am thankful to her.

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

I don't eat pork or beef. I cut that out when my father passed away about 20 years ago. I wanted to modify my diet because he passed away from diabetes. And, you know, it's very hereditary.

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor.

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.

I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.

My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

My father's plan was, we were going to grow up and travel the world.

'Yes' is the mother of all positive words, next to 'love.' Maybe 'love' is the father of all positive words.

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?'

Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us - even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will.

What the world needs today more than anything else is an implicit faith in God, our Father, and in Jesus Christ, His Son, as the Redeemer of the world.

My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.

We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.

Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.

My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond, ' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.

My advice to Robin is listen to your heart, do what you feel. Follow your heart in love and marriage as you would in careers, and you'll be fine. Robin has a great heart. He's a fabulous father.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

When I remember my mother, it makes me really sad. But, when I remember my father, it makes me smile.

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

Green has always been my mom's favorite color. My father, aunt and I have gotten her jade, emerald, and peridot pieces over the years, and we always seem to be on the lookout.

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.