Top 1200 Father Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

My father? My father left when I was quite young. Well actually, he was asked to leave. He had trouble metabolizing alcohol.

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.'

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

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

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

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.

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

I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.

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

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

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

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.

I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

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

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 am a father, and I know the feel of being a father. Why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also be happy parents?

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.

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

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to 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.

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.

'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.

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.

I love my father. I disagreed with him. But he was my father. He was the boss.

I was 11 when my father died, so I didn't know my father so well.

My father is not that comfortable with children, but he's a terrific father for an adult.

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.

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

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

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

Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way to reach each other, ... A father loves you dearly but you don't see it and so you're always trying to please your father, but your father doesn't let you know how he feels, which is, you don't have to please him because he already loves you.

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.

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

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.

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

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

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

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

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

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

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

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.