Father Quotes · Page 117

My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.

— Hugo Chavez

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell

My dad is such a Cuban man - he's as stubborn as me.

— Eddy Alvarez

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

— Paul Desmond

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My Dad is simply the greatest man I have ever known and I am so proud to call him mine…

— Anonymous

I have more respect for my step dad then I do for my actual biological father.

— Anonymous

After my father, I love two people; one is Pawan Kalyan and the other one is Trivikram Srinivas.

— Nithiin

The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

To be a dad: Make peace with the fact that you will now be your partner's second favourite person in the world.

— Chris Ramsey

“There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like…

— Philip Roth

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from…

— Trevor McDonald

“The Father is more concerned with the coming forth of His Son in our lives than He is in defeating Satan. Who”

— Francis Frangipane

“God our Father loves to give good gifts to us, his children. He invites us to ask for that which we need.…

— Gareth J. Goossen

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more…

— Lewis Carroll

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady…

— Craig Ferguson

The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the…

— Will Durant

When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I…

— Tess Gallagher

There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly…

— Robert D. Hales

I was about 20 when my mom got sick with cancer and it was bad. It was very scary and at the…

— John Buffalo Mailer

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated…

— Daniel Hannan

“Do you love your father more than anything else in all the whole world?” Ermengarde’s mouth fell open a little. She knew…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater…

— Haven Kimmel

I told the good Father that if he and I were going in the future to some wonderful Elysian Field and the…

— Cleveland Amory

My parents have been very broad-minded and let us do what we wanted.

— Riya Sen

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

— Mikhail Prokhorov

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

— Barbara Delinsky

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

— Dweezil Zappa

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

— J. C. Watts

I am not because of my father, and my son Ranbir Kapoor is not because of me.

— Rishi Kapoor

In my case, my mother had to be my mother and father, so I am thankful to her.

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

— Kim Wilde

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money.

— Haile Gebrselassie

You don't ever want an African father to come to your school looking for you.

— Kamaru Usman

I am choosy about my films, period - whether it's my father directing it or anybody else.

— Pooja Bhatt

My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

— Charlie Trotter

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.

— Anonymous

Our parents did an excellent job of making sure we were always outside of the house.

— T. J. Watt

My father, he wouldn't be belligerent or violent. It was never that way.

— John Carter Cash

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

— Veronica Roth