Father Quotes
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Father Quotes & Sayings
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My father hasn't told me about it but he showed me the straight path
— Fahmid Hassan Prohor
A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids.
— Michael Forest
A man can never compete with a woman's father
— Richelle Mead
When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
— Bertrand Piccard
My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.
— Amar'e Stoudemire
My son, do not forget your father's instructions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
— Lawrence Welk
Jesus said when you pray say "Our Father which art in heaven." He did not say "Our Judge which art in heaven". #grace #gospel
— John Paul Warren
My father said I was perfectly suited for Washington because I've always worked around nuts.
— Leon Panetta
I would never get married while my father is still alive because I wouldn't want him to walk me down the aisle.
— Chelsea Handler
You may be my new princess. But your mama is my queen.
— Rachel Van Dyken
Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.
— Bindi Irwin
Wait!' called Blue. 'Will you tell me about my father?""No," Gwenllian replied. "I will get mayonnaise. — Maggie Stiefvater
I've done my work and I'm happy with it ... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.
— Brandon Lee
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
— Saint John Chrysostom
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
— Larry McMurtry
My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
— Bill Paxton
He can't be a baby forever. He's a Stark, and near four." Robb sighed. "Well, Mother will be home soon. And I'll bring back Father, I promise.
— George R R Martin
I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
— Juan Manuel Marquez
Jesus Christ is the Father of Fatherless.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Prongs rode again last night ... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night ... You found him inside yourself.
— J.K. Rowling
I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies.
— Rochelle Aytes
My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
— Sherman Alexie
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
— Pat Conroy
True faith has no eyes, no ability to see. Instead, the Father left us with the most precious little grain - a tiny little thing - in a mustard seed.
— Ursula Denise Walker
My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.
— Norman Wisdom
People ask me, do I ever disagree with my father? It would be a little strange if I didn't.
— Ivanka Trump
What's wrong with your father? Huh? Can't he do this? Or have you been reading Freud? WARD, have you been reading the baby Freud?
— Benjamin R. Smith
Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers
— Theodore Roosevelt
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
— Caroline Kennedy
There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.
— Michael Jackson
We must remember that we are sons (and daughters) of God, not because we are so good but because God is that good.
— Paul Silway
The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn
— David Nicholls
People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"
— Matthea Harvey
My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.
— Kevin Kwan
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
— Marilyn Manson
My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
— John Major
There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father. The
— Saul D. Alinsky
Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
— Wyclef Jean
In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, sorry. I'm not ... uh ... interrupting something that will make me uncomfortable, am I?
— G.A. Aiken
In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don't have books written about them have it easier.
— Jaroslav Kalfar
Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.
— N.D. Wilson
If my father hadn't exactly disappointed me, he remained something unknown, something volatile and vaguely threatening. My
— Barack Obama
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
— Carly Simon
My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
— Kaniehtiio Horn
The bank balance was Noel Constant's share in the estate of his anarchist father. The estate had consisted principally of Government bonds.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
— Bertrand Russell
Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
— Yoko Ono
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
Lobola ("bride price") is a retired broke father's last hope to paying off his debts.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him.
— Marcel Proust
The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.
— Mort Sahl
I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.
— Gordon Brown
It was the first time in years I didn't wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.
— Ally Carter
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
— Lincoln Steffens
I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' the hert 'at despises coonsel!
— George MacDonald
My future is always plural. It is always about my mother and my father and my aunties and my sister.
— Daisy Hernandez
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
— George Steiner
I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.
— Sebastian Pinera
(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none.
— Orson Scott Card
But Owen, he hath not a farmer's heart-/This apple falls quite near his father's tree
- Beru — Ian Doescher
On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.
— Richard Gere
My father had gifted us both with a package of suspicion that sat like a teeth-baring watchdog in our minds.
— Tarryn Fisher
This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.
— George Bernard Shaw
My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.
— Jared Kushner
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
— Steven Spielberg
A father's suspicion...' she began.Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.'
~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon — Alice Sebold
And please watch over the babies trapped in limbo. In the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.
— Sierra Simone
My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures.
— Alice Hoffman
