Fathers Quotes (2396 Quotes)

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?

Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.

My dad doesn't scare easily, so I sincerely doubt that he's going to stay away any longer than he has to.

Steven Brill, an attorney and author of a book on the aftermath of Sept. 11, says Feinberg's chart was certain to offend all families, regardless of income. At the same time that some of the wealthy families are angry at him, the poor families are angry at him too, ... 'How dare Ken Feinberg do that How dare someone put a value on human life that says that my husband and the father of my children is worth one-tenth of what this other person is worth'

Executed by guillotine. Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.

The show has a lot to do with manhood and how men come into being. I grew up without my father in the picture, and my grandfather was my main role model. The aesthetics (of the show) come from the male model skipping a generation.

It's not about divorce, it's about living. I write about life. People sometimes go. Fathers sometimes leave. It's not all fun and games.

Everything will work itself out. I've been smart with my money so I'm not worried about the football part of it, I just want to have a healthy baby and be a good father.

His dad died when my dad was in his second year on a football scholarship at the University of Wisconsin,

I do genuinely feel like a father to them all. I've known them all, man and boy. Michael Vaughan rings me every week, Marcus Trescothick calls me a couple of times a week from his car, Ian Bell calls and Freddie Flintoff sends me texts. I then ring him back because I'm not up with text messaging. They all stay in touch.

The dichotomy in the courts' treatment of abortion and embryos could change the approach of fathers' rights advocates. For years, they have argued that there is a basic unfairness in the lack of a father's input in an abortion decision. A mother can terminate a pregnancy and the father has no say, ... On the other hand, a mother's able to make a unilateral decision to keep the child and saddle the father with 18 years of child support.

He told me, 'Dad, I'm going to be in the big leagues in three years,' and he ended up being right.

If you ever come to feel any doubt of my character or of my heartfelt devotion to you... the title of Father of My Country will give me no additional honor, but will be a reproach to you, either for your hasty action in conferring the appellation upon me, or for your inconsistency in changing your estimate of my character.

Don't worry, Dad, I'll be coming back home.

It was hard to watch people attack my dad, especially because I knew how hard he worked and how many great things he had done there, with and without support from the organization, with and without a lot of talent.

It is my solemn witness that God lives, and that Jesus is the Christ. He lives and loves us and desires our happiness always. He died for us, not because he had to, but because he wanted to. He would die again, if it would help us. Through Christ and the Father, a plan was laid out which gave purpose and promise to mortal life, even though Satan would declare it meaningless and futile.

It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn't have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough.

Ernie told her there was no need to wait, as he thought she was ready to turn pro, ... He spoke mostly to Michelle, but also had a word with her dad, whom he told the same thing.

My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

My father, who was a doctor, died of pancreatic cancer. But he was clear about what he wanted done and not done. No hospitals, no invasive surgeries. He had a living will, which is like a narrative of your life that you get to finish. It was his legacy -- what he wanted to leave his family emotionally, financially, spiritually.

Your husband is dead, your sister lives far away,
Your father is bent with age;
He has forgotten you, he scarcely leaves the house
Any more.

I've known this family for a long time. And I want to tell you your father would be proud.

A son, born after partition, shall alone take the property of his father, or if any ,of the other sons be reunited with the ,father , he shall share with them.

I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

She drove right through the back of the garage. We always used to say my dad was never bored with my mother.

Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone after she was gone.

When he found out his dad was located, he came upstairs to my office, knocked on the door and came walking in (and said), 'Coach, they found my dad,' ... He was real excited, and relieved.

Whenever there's a new baby in my family, even if I don't know who the father is, I display pictures of it. But only one or two per child. No one wants to see 37 pictures of your grandchild - which is also why you must never carry more than one picture of each grandchild in your wallet.

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Bernard Loomer's father was a sea captain. He was acquainted with his small place in an uncontrollable nature. In a talk in 1974 Loomer described his father's instructions about the uses of a baseball glove. The father had just overheard his son's sandlot.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

the land of my fathers . . . . I leave it to my fathers.

If we had everything we wanted and needed without asking of Heavenly Father, we would lose sight of the hand of God in our lives.

There will always be a father.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young. . .

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

His dad was a real confidant. He was a real Rock of Gibraltar. I think part of their conversation was (the bar) could be his destiny. But he was devoted to football. He has a passion for it. I'm glad he stuck with it.

God is dead Heaven is empty - Weep, children, you no longer have a father.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

I think his first three, four, five years out of the league will be spent back home in Mississippi, watching his two girls grow up. He might get into high school athletics because his dad was a coach. I don't see Brett getting in the (broadcast) booth.

Young people must learn that none of the exciting and entertaining fun things are worth it if they take you off the path that will lead you back home to your Heavenly Father.

One may also entertain on such occasions one s maternal grandfather, a maternal uncle, a sister s son, a father in law, one s teacher, a daughter s son, a daughter s husband, a cognate kinsman, one s own officiating priest or a man for whom one offers sacrifices.

An adopted son shall never take the family ,name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family ,name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives ,his son in adoption cease ,as far as that son is concerned .