Fathers Quotes (2396 Quotes)

The Auerbach family expresses their deepest appreciation for the concern pertaining to the health of their father. Red has been under the weather at times recently and he has taken steps with his doctor to return to feeling better. The family asks that you please respect their privacy during this time.

My dad is a very strong figure in my life and certainly in death he's become even more meaningful. So there's still a lot of things going on in me that pertain to him and my relationship with him,

I'm a father, a grandfather, a teacher and a friend before I'm a coach. There's nothing more important to me than helping kids, and that's why I've never gone after a college job.

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.

They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above,

I never got into fights with kids about whose dad is bigger and who can beat up who. What am I going to say My dad can kill your dad when he's asleep'

It's about how a single father struggles to bring up his two sons, ... And it's that kind of time when the oldest son announces kind of out of the blue that not only is he leaving home, but he's leaving the state. And he doesn't really have a clear explanation why, other than he wants to live his own life. And the father cannot wrap his head around like what's wrong with here.

The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

My son turned 10 just the other day. He said, 'Thanks for the ball, dad, come on let's play - Can you teach me to throw' I said, 'Not today, I got a lot to do.' He said, 'That's OK.'

I don't read too much of what's written and I don't listen too much to what's said. What's more relevant is what the coaches say and think, and, I suppose, my father, although he doesn't have too much critical to say. I prefer to do my talking on the pitch and I'm pleased, but hopefully there's more to come.

The idea of not going to school in my house My dad would spank you raw. We had the value of education hammered into us at an early age. There was never any question we were going to college.

When that final buzzer went off, that was just pure joy, indescribable joy. It just overwhelmed me. I looked at my father, he was smiling, crying. My mother, they were all crying. It was like a dream come true. I used to dream about that when I was a little kid, in front of my hometown, home fans, my family, it's indescribable.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

I expected them to go soft on each other when they went head-to-head, but they didn't. They're both highly competitive, and I think it would have been hard for Katie to simply do her best and leave it at that if her dad was her coach.

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood

There were certain great principles involved in the organization of this earth, and one was that there might be a place provided whereon the children of our Heavenly Father could live and propagate their species and have bodies formed for the spirits to inhabit who were the children of God for ... He is the God and Father of the spirits of all flesh.

The main focus is to give young fathers the tools to be more effective dads. Many young fathers leave the parenting to young mothers or to their grandparents.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Ricky's never been interested in the business side of things, ... All Richard is interested in is boxing. Even when I could get him to come along to meetings he'd sit there and text his mates the whole time and wouldn't pay a bit of attention. After some meetings I've turned to him and said 'Do you want to know what that means' and he's just said 'No, you deal with that, dad, I just want to fight'.

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. Think about your father He doesn't know where anything is. You ask him to do something, he messes it up and your mother sends you go down and see what your father's doing before he blows up the house. He's a genius at work because he doesn't want to do it, and he knows someone will be coming soon to stop him.

Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father.

Al Gore graduates college. His father, a U. S. senator, opposes the Vietnam War. Al Gore has his doubts, but enlists in the Army.

The house my dad was staying at, they've got a satellite, so I know they got the game,

If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.

He's really down to earth. He keeps it real with everybody and doesn't try and rub it in people's faces. Everybody knows his dad played in the NBA, but we never talk about it. And I don't think anybody puts any expectations on (Garrett) because of his dad. People realize he's a high school kid. We have enough stuff to worry about being a teenager.

It would be a huge benefit for their team. Whitney plays a much calmer style of play than her father, but he is more excitable.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying ''the Son, O how unlike the Father'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.

We believe that by restoring the house, Madison will no longer be an overlooked founding father. He is the genius who is responsible for the success for our nation's Constitution. He was the principle creative genius for this.

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.

When we got home from that race that night, Rick wrote on the computer, 'Dad, when I run it feels like my disability disappears.' So, that was a very powerful message to me.

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.

Some authority on parenting once said, Hold them very close and then let them go. This is the hardest truth for a father to learn that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).

My father was all for it, my mother, being a mother, was more worried of course. She wanted me to stay at home, but I felt ready. I was always raised as an independent person. The main effect of starting university this early was that I matured earlier.

I am relieved that this saga is now over, ... I made it clear from the beginning that the boy belongs with his father.

My Father was a great boxer, and I grew up watching the fights, live and on TV too.

God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance in this the greatest of all conflicts. Strengthen my soul so that the weakening instinct of self-preservation, which besets all of us in battle, shall not blind me to my duty to my own manhood, to the glory of my calling, and to my responsibility to my fellow soldiers. Grant to our armed forces that disciplined valor and mutual confidence which insures success in war. Let me not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let me be glad that such heroes have lived. If it be my lot to die, let me do so with courage and honor in a manner which will bring the greatest harm to the enemy, and please, oh Lord, protect and guide those I shall leave behind. Give us the victory, Lord.

I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.

Oct. 1 is a tragic day because it's the first day a law goes into effect that states a legislative belief that children don't need both a mom and a dad.

Father's Day is an interesting holiday because a lot of Dads don't go out and say that this is what they really want.

I think the very first time I was probably about 6 or 7, ... I went with my father. I think it was an evening show.

A doctor is a doctor, a lawyer is a lawyer and a cop is a cop. If I was a father, this would be over with, but I want to do it right.