Old Father Quotes
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What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.
— Mother Teresa
My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.
— Arnold Palmer
My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
— Natalie Gulbis
My father is an old man, my lord. Well past forty. His fighting days are done.
— George R R Martin
This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.
— Celina Jade
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
— Barbra Streisand
No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.
— Desmond Morris
My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.
— Henrik Pontoppidan
My father had slowed down playing a little ... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up.
— David Edwards
Ronan rationed the music from their old life, as if he used up a bit of his memories of his father every time he played it.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
— Aristophanes
There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan ... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.
— John F. Kennedy
I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.
— Harry Frankfurt
My father was gone when I was three years old.
— Marc Wallice
Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won.
— Darryl Worley
Tory a father isn't supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being sad, you terrify me.
— Kathy Reichs
This is old news, and stale," growled the Shavepate. "Your mother said the same of your father's kisses," Daario replied.
— George R R Martin
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.
— Robin Williams
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
My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did
— Karen Hesse
Let me tell you, though, my father never once cheated on his taxes. That's just how he is, a real old-fashioned straight arrow.
— Haruki Murakami
A father's only dream is to hear his daughter ask to kill some zombies. Go for it, sweetie. Make this old man proud.
— Tahnee Fritz
every father wants to see his girls settled and not end up old maids
— Sinead Moriarty
One of the fathers saith ... that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.
— Francis Bacon
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.
— John Milton
My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
— George Kennedy
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
— Major Taylor
Spirituality means to me living the ordinary life extraordinarily well. As the old-church father said, 'The glory of God is a human being fully alive.
— William Sloane Coffin
Do not speak harshly to a grown-up man. He is old enough to be your father.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.
— Catherine Marshall
When my father was growing up inside the Old City of Jerusalem, he and his friends liked to trade desserts after diner.
— Naomi Shibab Nye
My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.
— Doris Grumbach
I think it was so splendid in Father to go as a chaplain when he was too old to be drafted, and not strong enough for a soldier, said Meg warmly.
— Louisa May Alcott
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.
— Ziggy Marley
But let the good old corn adornThe hills our fathers trod;
Still let us, for his golden corn,
Send up our thanks to God! — John Greenleaf Whittier
father loved to watch old westerns and the evening news,
— Nicholas Sparks
It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
— Ziggy Marley
Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.
— Gloria Naylor
What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? Me Father is very fond of me!
— John Ortberg Jr.
Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead.Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
Shore his old thread in twain. — William Shakespeare
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
— Donald Johanson
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
— Abraham Lincoln
There aren't many fathers around here ... If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.
— John Redwood
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Old photograph of his father, Sirius, Lupin, and Pettigrew,
— J.K. Rowling
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
My name is Lilith, I'm twenty six years old and besides working for my father, I don't do much.
— Rachel Spanswick
I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.
— William Steig
Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac?
— Thomm Quackenbush
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.
— David Johansen
I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.
— Wynton Marsalis
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.
— Carol Vorderman
Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.
— Amor Towles
My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.
— Kevin Kwan
Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.
— Elizabeth Goudge
In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.
— Mukesh Ambani
My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
— Valentino Rossi
I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.
— Anthony Quinn
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
— John C. Hawkes
I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role,But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old. — Big Daddy Kane
The first film I was in was called 'Straight Time.' I was five-years old, and I was playing my father's son.
— Jake Busey
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
— Willa Cather
Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are.
— Mallory Ortberg
I ask you ... to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall ...
— Frederick Douglass
respects a weak man. Asher had been old enough to be shamed by his father's scandal. When his classmates had
— Ruth Cardello
My father's love was always strongMy mother's glamour lives on and on.
Yet still inside I felt alone,
for reasons unknown to me. — Lana Del Rey
I was born and raised in L.A. My father was born and raised in L.A. So we're old hands here.
— Tim Matheson
I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.
— Orlando Bloom
