Top 1200 Father Figure Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

In person, my father is so friendly, so considerate, so funny, and so real. I have admired my father all of my life, and I love him with all my heart.

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful leader.

If you always meditate on sin, "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," actually you will become a sinner. The psychological approach is, you should forget it - even if you are a sinner, you should think, "I am the son of a Great Father, I am the daughter of a Great Father." Thus you are meditating on the Great Father, and a day is sure to come when you will become one with your Great Father.

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.

I became the leader because of my father's leadership and I was considered as powerful as same as my own father.

It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not only is the theological "Christ of faith" a synthetic construct of theologians, a symbolic "Uncle Sam" figure, but if you could travel ... back to First-Century Nazareth, you would not find a Jesus living there.

I rightfully respect Killer Mike a hundred percent. He knows my father; he's known my father for years.

They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of the Chorus,' as Marilyn Monroe's father.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

I was attracted to cricket at a very young age. My father's elder brother Akram Siddiq saw the passion for cricket in me, so he pushed me, and then another uncle - father of Kamran, Umar, and Adnan Akmal - advised my father to work hard on me, as he thought that I will make it big in cricket.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

For me, the easiest thing to figure out is the story I want to tell, and the hardest thing is to figure out the voice that's gonna tell it. And that's why I finish very little.

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.

I think I know now that you can't do this sort of climbing and have a domestic side. You're not a practicing father if you're not there. You're maybe a visiting father.

My father didn't know about cricket. Then, one of my father's friend advised him to take me to a coaching camp.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

I would like to be an FBI profiler. I'm fascinated with psychology, but I wouldn't want to deal with people and their problems in my office. I like to figure them out from afar, narrow a case down, figure it out, but it sounds like a lot of science.

Alia and Shaheen have a smart father and have got good genes. But it's not fair that people expect them to do as well as their father.

'Go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father, and to My God, and your God' (Jn. 20:!7). He is our Father by grace through the Spirit of adoption (Rom. 8:15), but His Father by nature on account of His divinity. Similarly, He is our God as the creator of our human nature, but His God by reason of the dispensation whereby He became man. He made these distinctions so that we might understand the difference.

Let's make the haystack smaller. Let's say for a while, until we can figure out who's coming, who's going, and who's overstayed their visa, let's have extra scrutiny and figure out what's going on, because there's a whole segment of the world that is intent on sending people here to attack us.

Mubarak would meet with me when I was at Central Command. He would lean and put his hand on my knee, as if a father figure, and say, 'General, don't ever forget the Arab Street. Listen to the Arab Street.' I'd like to go to him now and say, 'Mr. President, what about that Arab Street, what's that all about?'

I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

I'm a hopeless father. I don't know why. I don't think I was supposed to be a father.

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

My father is my father, and I am me. I have the advantage of this honest comparison, quiet, and the opportunity to share in his profession.

It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how tobe men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.

Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

My father never played with me. I can remember my father picking me up - once. I can remember my father telling me behind a closed door that he loved me - once.

My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else, and I don't have great language, highfalutin' language - I'm very ordinary. So I figure if I write about myself, other people with similar feelings and experiences would go, 'Oh, that's me.'

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if theyve had a competitive relationship with their own father.

You can put my dad in any situation and he's going to figure it out. He's going to figure the people out and how to get along, how to make everyone comfortable.

It's funny because my mom is not a singer at all, nor is my father. But I definitely get more of my father's tone.

One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use of the term "Father." Over 70 times in the New Testament alone, God is described as "Father" to His children. No major world religion describes the relationship between its creator and its adherents in terms of a father.

I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.

I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.

My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.

I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.

I had a fantastic father, Jack Sharp, and I will always carry him in my heart as my father.

People were very nice to me. They knew I didn't have the money to do figure-drawing classes, so they let me annex the figure-drawing classes that the animators had.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

A lot of people love Marco Rubio but they're gonna have - they also love Jeb Bush. They are having a hard time trying to figure out how they gonna - you know, figure that one out.