Fathers Quotes (2396 Quotes)

Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame . . . and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

I'm just so glad that 'can't-win-in-the-playoffs' crap is over. Gosh, I know how hard it is to succeed on that level, and trust me, it's just the worst thing to have to deal with. It's much worse as a father. I mean, find something else to put on him -- and trust me, people will -- but at least make it something that doesn't take a year to get rid of.

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their partys base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.

Everything with Mike is about the team, ... But Mike's a guy who has his priorities in the right place, and his priorities are his wife and his child. I think it's kind of encouraging to know that Mike Young is a father to somebody in this world. I'd like to have that kid at my school, or coach him in baseball. I don't think I'll be around when he's ready to play.

A different kind of family, I guess. Mom went to nursing school after having five kids, and Dad is a road construction foreman. Pretty cool people. I guess you call them hippies. They met at a music festival in Colorado. Dad was leaning against a tree, playing a flute, and Mom walked by and caught his eye. That's the way they tell the story.

They put some pressure on me, but I had to relax and stay calm. When I am struggling, I will look at my dad, and that helps. I won't make every shot, so it's nice that I have teammates that step up.

His concern has always been about his kids. He doesn't want any harm to come to them. There's no question he's been a good father.

I think it's very important. I've seen just in the past week alone a big change in Michael. He's a very enthusiastic young man as it is. Now he comes home and he's saying, 'Dad, I hit the ball 70 yards today.' We were talking about it over dinner. I think it's a great program. I love it.

We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

As an actor and writer, husband and father, I have two often-conflicting monkeys on my back Monkey number one is Creative Monkey. He occasionally digs his claws into my brains, and refuses to let go until something wonderful comes out. I love him.

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

We were looking for a family boat. I was in construction with my father, and I began looking for a boat at some of the dealers after work. I was still dressed in my work clothes and when I walked into those places, I guess they didn't think I had any money to spend, so they ignored me.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her sparks over an incredulous world with no thought or care where they fell, a carbon copy of father.

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.

Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.

He's this kid growing up in a small town in Ireland in the 70's--you know the height of the troubles in Ireland, ... He discovers he's an adopted orphan and that his father is actually this parish priest, played by Liam Neeson. So it's just this crazy mad journey that he goes on to find his love.

Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

It's a dream come true from a dad's standpoint. Every dad wants this for their son.

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

Look at my own case I am the father in my family. It is my duty to enforce the Shariah in my family and I do so with an iron hand.

They're gonna understand that the state their father was in goes beyond the normal funeral home. But just the fact that their loved one has been identified will probably start the grieving process.

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

My father was an officer under the British Government, and my mother has enjoyed a pension on that account ever since his death.

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

All that matters is when on third down-and-6 in that first game and it is hot, and you just got whacked a couple times, who are they going to look at They can't look at the sidelines they can't look at their moms and dads. They look at the quarterback.

Beloved Father.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

The kids were giving the hepatitis A virus to mom, dad and Uncle Tom. And so if they didn't get the disease, the parents were protected.

Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

YOUR friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.

At that time, the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) will formally transfer parole and care to the father,

If we are to give working mothers, fathers and their children an opportunity to live the American dream we must invest in their future.

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.

I remember as a little girl coming into Boston when they were building this and first seeing the signs - If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now' - and saying to my father, Daddy, Daddy, why don't we live there'

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Normally, its not healthy when a father tutors their own adult children. Sids sons all called me Uncle Dick. Its easier to take something from an uncle than parents. On that basis, there was immediate trust because he knew there was no hidden agenda. He was a significant owner of the company and never felt threatened.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed.

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.