Fathers Quotes (2396 Quotes)

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

I've not been the kind of father than I should have been, nor the kind of husband, ... I don't know if I can correct that. I'm going to spend some time because they have been so wonderful.

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

I think it's out there and it's not something that I treat lightly, ... At the same time, I realized there's a lot that's going to have to change in my life before I become a father, as far as how I live, my priorities, where I might live. When the time comes, that's something I want to be just as passionate about as how passionate I am in how I live now.

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

The children have the grief of losing their father. And they are going to have some decisions down the road as to what to do with the horses. Several of them seem to be interested in keeping them.

George Burns was the father I never had.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way in the dreary desert sand of dead habit Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action.... into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

Assert their relationship to their fathers this is more equitable with Allah but if you do not know their fathers, then they are your brethren in faith and your friends and there is no blame on you concerning that in which you made a mistake, but (concerning) that which your hearts do purposely (blame may rest on you), and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

I know sometimes Tim and I are put in an adverse position if and when I have to discipline him, but I will also say when my son (Sam, who played for Southern Cal) made the Associated Press All-American team, the first call congratulating me as a dad was f

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly Because Janet Reno is her father.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Dad was an avid photographer. He loved to take pictures of nature or places he had been. He had been to Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and throughout the United States. He has thousands of pictures organized by year or by trip.

I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

The Bush administration has apparently approved a plan to oust Saddam Hussein. I think that's President Bush's Father's Day gift to his Dad.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and my father.

He spent the night at my house one night in high school. My dad was driving home in a bad snowstorm, and we talked about how funny it would be (to both go to Boston College). It was, 'You bring the TV I'll bring the microwave.' Something like that. Two days later, I committed.

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

I also did electrical and chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh, I entered as a student with the major of chemical engineering.

I remember my parents telling me, at the age of 10, 'You can do anything you want.' Dad, we did it

She writes a lot about the abandoning father. The unfaithful male. I've told her that the next time she does that in a play, she should give it to someone else. I love her and I love what she does, but I've been frank with her. I can't deal with it anymore. Those are not the black men that I know.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

I'm sure he knows this, but my father passed away this summer and (Davis is) like a father figure to me. I love him with all my heart, and I'm sure he loves me as well.

Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.

It was really great just to know Coach was so loved. We played Friday night but I got permission from the league and my owner to miss the game. This was to honor my dad, and I wanted to be here. It was special.

I think he was always there for us. If you ever wanted support, he was there to give you the support. Dad was there to help you 100 percent of the time.

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

I was a goodie-good kid my parents both worked for the First Methodist Church in Lubbock. My father was the Activities Director, and my mother was the General Secretary of the church.So I grew up in this church environment, but at the same time I had these thoughts of rebellion.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.

My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.

This means so much to me because my father is a World War II vet, ... and he taught me from an early age to honor these veterans. He taught me they sacrificed enormously so we could live in a free country.

Our fathers' fathers, slowly and carefully
Gathered them, one by one, when they were new
And a delighted world received their thoughts
Hungrily; while we but love the more,
Because they are so old and grown so dear!

Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well.

I was an English and history major, and I was in a class that culminated in a play at the end of the semester for Father's Weekend-we had a thing at our college called Father's Weekend where we all paid tribute to our fathers.

He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

We have been told ... that this life is a necessary part in the course of progression designed by our Father. We have been taught ... to look upon these bodies of ours as gifts from God.... It has been declared in the solemn word of revelation, that the spirit and the body constitute the soul of man and, therefore, we should look upon this body as something that shall endure in the resurrected state, beyond the grave, something to be kept pure and holy.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

These kids are all really close, and they've proved that all year by being a fantastic team. They proved it by all dying their hair, although I know some fathers and mothers who are going to be pretty upset.