My Father Quotes

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

Every one of my father's songs is a lesson.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity.

Father's Day makes me wish I could talk to my Dad just one more time, instead of all the time.

At times some may think that no one cares--but someone always cares! Your Heavenly Father will not leave you to struggle alone, but stands ever ready to help.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man...God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

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.

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

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.

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.

The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Jesus first of all, loves His Father in heaven and would never compromise the message that sinners must be delivered or be damned. That is the reason Jesus came to earth-to save sinners.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

We don't have to be perfect to experience the blessings and gifts of our Heavenly Father.

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.

More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

The Lord is a Father, the most tender and best of fathers. He cannot fail to be moved when His children appeal to Him.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

I am very proud of my father and what he's accomplished. It is amazing.

Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.

Repetition is the father of learning.

I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

I don't need my name in lights I'm famous in my Father's eyes Make no mistake He knows my name.

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.