Father Quotes · Page 106

My Fathers only advice to me was if anyone calls you Gay, just smash his face in

— Carlos Acosta

Someday I'd like to be a father, not of a human child, but something more reasonable.

— Dov Davidoff

You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

— Patty Jenkins

My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

— Charlie Trotter

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.

— Samuel Chadwick

If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that…

— Alex Ferguson

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how…

— David

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not…

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Those who used to ask my father to be ashamed of himself for training us in wrestling now say they wish they…

— Geeta Phogat

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really…

— Sonia Braga

We shot the video for 'Broken' where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sense of serving our country…

— Patty Smyth

I came from a single parent household. And I had a bad example of what a husband and father could be and…

— Sarah Shahi

Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.

— Pastor Maldonado

The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had…

— James D. Watson

Thus it is that our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father, so far as this mortal experience is concerned, consists not…

— Neal A. Maxwell

They were enormously chic. My father was very chic. My mother was a heavy woman and she wore wonderful, bright colors, and…

— Polly Allen Mellen

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of…

— James E. Faust

When it became clear that in fact my father was saying, "It will be interesting to see what you want to do…

— N. T. Wright

“Word of his great strength, intelligence, and perseverance had spread even this far, and yet his youth was such that my father…

— Daniel Wallace

Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with…

— Benjamin Spock

My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

— Raf Simons

I always regretted that I never had the chance to tell Dad how great I thought he was.

— Jason Bonham

I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.

— Douglas Tompkins

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

— Dennis Wilson

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter…!!!! A daughter is a gift of love...!!!!

— Pooja

“It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

— Desmond Tutu

To think that Woody was in any way a father or stepfather to me is laughable.

— Soon-Yi Previn

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

— Gareth Gates

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.

— Hermione Gingold

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

— Kim Edwards

Now that I'm a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

— Ruby Bridges

Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend.

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“A successful father is not more successful than his children.”

— Raheel Farooq

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

— Patricia Briggs