Fathers Quotes (2396 Quotes)

So to D.J. it didn't make any sense that his two dads, both boys, would contemplate marrying each other, ... Boys weren't supposed to be interested in marriage any more than they were supposed to be interested in dolls or dresses or fairy tales about princesses.

I always saw him around his kids. Even though I wasn't married and didn't have children at the time, it encouraged me. He showed us what it took to be a special dad. This is a sad day. It made me want to go home and hug my kids and love them up. You never know when they might not be around or you might not be around for them.

I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.

I'm a wrestler, and I kind of got low under their legs. This was Parents' Night, and I wanted to win for my dad, my team and my coaches.

When he was a sophomore, he was this big but quiet kid who had a lot of ability. His biggest improvement has been his leadership. He's like a father figure out there. The guys turn to him and look for advice.

In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.

Preston wanted to be the dad he didn't know. So when we first found out we were pregnant, I remember it was late, he ran outside, he was just screaming, because he was just so happy.

My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote a Utopian novel. It was a kind of allegory or fairy tale.

It started a whole new chapter in my life to discover my father was gay, ... I think it's very hard to discover that everything you thought you knew up to the age of 14 is out the window.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.

The message was that ... fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children.

The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

I am the way, the truth, and the life no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

Just because the road looks tough up ahead doesn't mean you can give up. He's always been that way as a coach, but I think the struggles we had with my sister's health just gave him more resolve than ever. That had such a profound effect on my father. He saw the fight in my sister and the faith everyone had. It showed him the power of positive thinking.

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light.

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

It's the only opportunity I might have to represent my country. I'm thrilled about it. I'm very proud to be an American. My father was in the military. It's just awesome representing our country.

But then my father was transferred to New York, and ... I knew this was it. I saw the bright lights, big city, the professional companies and great dancers. I was in a great school and knew that this was serious business and I had to do it.

Regional economic cooperation in South Asia has fallen far short of our expectations and the dreams of our founding fathers, ... It remains far behind more successful examples in both Asia and other regions of the world. I sincerely hope that SAFTA comes into force by January 1, 2006, but even this will represent only a modest beginning in terms of our goals.

It's a real family - father, mother and four children. They do the most amazing job. You really don't want to miss them.

He taught me how to be a dad. I grew up without a father, so I leaned on certain things and certain characteristics and people, and he had a lot of characteristics that I tried to incorporate into my life.

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

Recently, in my opinion, there has been too much talk about the Common Man. It has been dinned into us that this is the Century of the Common Man. The idea seems to be that the Common Man has come into his own at last. But I have never been able to find out who this is. In fact, most Americans will get mad and fight if you try calling them common.... I have never met a father and mother who did not want their children to grow up to be uncommon men and women. May it always be so. For the future of America rests not in mediocrity, but in the constant renewal of leadership in every phase of our national life.

This is our life, looking for jobs. For the family, the children, our mothers and fathers. You know

Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad.

I've grown up, ... I'm less naive than before. I stopped the party scene a long time ago and started spending more time with family and real friends. I'm not perfect. Sometimes, I think about what I would say if I could talk to my mother again. First, I'd get off my chest the mistakes and bad decisions I've made. I'm married now with a wonderful wife. We're expecting a baby boy in December. I'm doing LaMaze classes and experiencing morning sickness with her. As a father, I'm going to be there every day I possibly can. But I had two children out-of-wedlock, not with my wife, before I was married. They're beautiful children I adore them. But I grew up with a solid family, and Jacob and Atiana ages 7 and 6 are entitled to that too. I try to be a good father to them, but it's not the same and there were other times when my head was turned by fame and fortune. Maybe the best way to say it is that I've made mistakes in my life, but they were innocent mistakes and I've grown from them.

That picture that they showed with the father, that is not Elian. That hair is not Elian's.

Reagan's eldest child Maureen recently said she has concluded Morris wasted an incredible and irreplaceable opportunity, ... For your information, three of Reagan's four children have supported my portrait of Ronald Reagan, saying that it represents the father they remember and love. Only Maureen, of the four children, is saying that she refused to read the book. This is a pity, because if she did, she would find it not only fair to him, but in places flattering to her.

Oh, how lovely was the morning Radiant beamed the sun above. Bees were humming, Sweet birds Singing, Music ringing through the grove. When within the shady woodland Joseph sought the God of love. Humbly kneeling, sweet appealing Twas the boy's first uttered prayer When the powers of sin assailing Filled his soul with deep despair But undaunted still, he trusted In his heav'nly Father's care. Suddenly a light descended. Brighter far than noon-day sun, And a shining glorious pillar O'er him fell, around him shone. While appeared two heav'nly beings, God the Father and the Son. Joseph, this is my beloved Hear Him' Oh, how sweet the word Joseph's humble prayer was answered, And he listened to the Lord. Oh, what rapture filled his bosom, For he saw the living God.

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

Wild was the day the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land.

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

It was the first time for some dads to talk about their issues.

Let wisdom be your mother, and contentment your father. Let Truth be your brother - these are your best relatives.

My agent loved it because my name was flying around everywhere. My dad was looking at the internet every day. But I didn't pay attention. I was busy trying to become the player I know I can be. I was always setting myself up (mentally) to be a Mariner. I was never setting myself up to be traded.

I do recall that my father was the victim of a smear campaign by the publisher of the local newspaper. I knew it was wrong and unfair, but it didn't seem to really affect my father.

My dad is my everything - my coach, batting instructor, encouragement and motivation. When I go into a situation, I take him with me.

My father was an agnostic.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

Mick's a wonderful person. He has fantastic qualities. He's a great father, he's very funny and we laugh together. We really like each other. He was just not a good husband.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

Every drop of blood causes suffering for the Holy Father,