Father Quotes

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he mu...

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I c...

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's C...

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the...

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with ma...

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taug...

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it mo...

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to...

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the pr...

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

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of...

You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibac...

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. ...

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby a...

Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would rela...

Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Li...

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father...

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope...

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

In retrospect, it seems obvious that my research about parenting was also a means to subdue my anxie...

Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, Fra...

There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.

I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under ...

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like ...

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast...

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could...

My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fac...

It doesn't matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a...

   Susan poured herself out some more wine. She said:   "You're nice. You must come and see me some ...

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor...

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing m...

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there i...

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthw...

He always called me Daughter. It was to distinguish me from his sister Ava. I loved being called Dau...

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadeq...

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my...

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Ha...

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and ...

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'J...

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my ...

My father offered his life so our democracy could live. My mother devoted her life to nurturing that...

What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spiri...

It's better to make the wrong choice," my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays ...

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute weddin...

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a p...

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact th...

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil...

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or se...

The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as ...

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't pos...

..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understa...

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth t...

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming h...

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never...

Never go on a date unarmed.” Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan...

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

The heroin flowing through me, I thought about the last time I saw my father alive. He was drunk and...

(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the ...

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own ...

The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father...

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no w...

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer....

to love is to destroy and that to be loved is the one to be destroyed

The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.

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

. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towar...

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to se...

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and...

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls i...

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; m...

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...

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

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

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discern...

In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility...

Just take me with you. Please.I cant.Please, Papa.I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thou...

You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up i...

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son o...

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that'...

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhi...

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t...

In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my greatest ac...

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But...

...My dad, may he rest in peace, taught me many wonderful things. And one of the things he taught me...

Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly...

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced o...

My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales fro...

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in ...

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like ...