Father Quotes
As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.
You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.
I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.
My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
Can't you see the Creator of the universe, who understands every secret, every mystery, sitting patiently and listening to a four-year-old talk to Him? That's a beautiful image of a father.
My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.
My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.
People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.
Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love!
Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.
My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.
Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend.
I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.
A Christian who does not pray is like prince in beggars clothes who stands but a few inches from His father's throne and yet does not ask.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth.