My Father Quotes

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.

He was the unloving father that I never had, but I still craved his acceptance.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never got a dinner!

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

I usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. And I need the energy if I'm gonna start blowin crap up. It's what the founding fathers would want.

No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free.

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

As time goes on you are given responsibility and other things to deal with. You become a husband and a father and there's another shirt of stuff.

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'

A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

There is neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor any other person whatsoever who can embrace the object beloved with so great a love as that wherewith God embraceth the soul.

Your mother betrayed my father as well as her Clan. You have no right to be a medicine cat. No right to even live among the Clans. I'll never forgive you for what you've done! Never!

Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.

The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

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

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

You should express regularly to your wife and children your reverence and respect for her. Indeed, one of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it is happened.

Father made the most popular cars in the world; I want to make the best.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.

See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child

My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs.

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook—even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

I would like now to shed light in your heart on the truth of things, for it was not my will, but that of the Father and my Rabbi, which was done that faithful night.

I sent my father to Mecca for Hajj with my first paycheck

There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.

My father gave me some advice when I was very young - whatever someone tells you in the future, don't forget Pele is the best.