Top 1200 Best Father Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I don't leave things like recovery to chance! I have learned from the best, after all - my father and uncle!

Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.

My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.

My father was a Victorian product. He didn't marry until he was over 40. I knew him more as a grandfather than a father. You didn't lie or cheat with him. I would never have defied my father.

The best moment in 'Masoom' comes when the boy tells him that he knows he's his father.

I enjoy the challenge of being a father... I try to do my best to be there for my children.

When I was nine, my father passed away. It's one thing when you're a kid and your father wasn't there for you. My father was there, and then he was taken away.

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.

President Obama certainly has an impressive gift for eloquence, and he has a global vision, as did my father. He doesn't rattle easy, and he doesn't harbor animosity, which were also characteristics my father had. But my father's arena was far broader than politics.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God? What you end up doing is you spend your life searching for a father and God. What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.

We best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them.

My father was my best friend. He was conservative and traditional, but at the same time, he wasn't strict.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I've seen the best and worst of times. My parents were divorced when I was a child. I was brought up by my father.

I would love to have kids. I can't wait to be a father, had a great father - still have a great father.

People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God's best. Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

My father said, Bring along your best girl. This is something you say to a pimp!

The film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,' based the book of the same name, has a line that enlightens and comforts me. The protagonist, who has lost all ability to move except one eye, discusses his role as a father. He notes, 'Even a fraction of a father is still a father.'

Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.

My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese.

The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.

The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.

I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from dinner to clear the table. My sister and I would wash and dry the dishes each night at Father's request. If we were not there, Father and Mother would clean the kitchen together.

If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.

As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories for your son.

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.

I'm their sole parent, and there is nothing more important than being the best father I can be.

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

My life is with Shah Rukh and the kids. He is the best husband and father I could ever ask for.

I am not anti-man. I am married to a man... I have a father and a brother... I love men. But there is something really lacking when Cake is nominated. How does Julianne Moore win for Best Actress but her film isn't nominated for Best Screenplay? How does Gone Girl become such a critically-acclaimed and box-office hit but its scriptwriter, Gillian Flynn, isn't nominated for Best screenplay. It's disgusting!

Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.

When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant.

At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

I gave my jersey to Mourinho because he’s the best coach in the world and I love him like a father.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

You mean there’s someone out there better than your father? (Quills) No, idiot. My father trained him. Just FYI, my father is also his godfather. So you want to be real nice to Dev. All of us take it personally when people aren’t. (Adron)

When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.

... I believe the Father came down from heaven, as the apostles said he did, and begat the Saviour of the world; for he is the ONLY-begotten of the Father, which could not be if the Father did not actually beget him in person.... I believe the Father came down in His tabernacle and begat Jesus Christ.

Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.

You'll see me at my best is when I'm hopefully serving as a father to someone.

As a father you're guilty until proven innocent. You're a second class citizen in terms of parenting. As a father you have to prove your ability to be a father whilst residence, power and control is left solely with the mother.

When the soul knows the love of God by the Holy Spirit, then he clearly feels that the Lord is our own Father, the closest, dearest Father, the best. And there is not greater happiness that to love God with all the mind and heart, and our neighbor as ourself. And when this love is in the soul, then all things bring joy to the soul.

If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.

I tell everyone in the world that I have always been the best father I could be and that I was the worst husband. Wooo!

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.

Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.

Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

My parents are both lawyers, and my father always said his best cases have been returns, cases that come into his office from another lawyer. So he said, "Never be ashamed to take a return." All my best roles have happened because someone else dropped out at the last minute, and God bless those actresses for their queeny fits, their sprained ankles, their better job turning up, because that's how I've got my best work.

My father used to say, 'Well, Ann, maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.'

My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

Looking back, when I was fourteen, I aspired to... be the best believer, husband, father, businessman, and man of integrity that I can be.

Every man plays many roles. So far, I have played father the best.

If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.