Father Quotes · Page 162

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

— Drew Barrymore

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater…

— Nelson Mandela

My father always kept me in a very different world, a very simple world.

— Maurizio Gucci

“Don't you call me ‘Dad.’ You are no son of mine. I wouldn't father an abomination. You”

— Nat Kozinn

I rather be a single father, raising on my own. I'd hate to be a 'part-time' dad.

— Anonymous

My father Kakabhai Haribhai Shroff was an astrologer.

— Jackie Shroff

People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.

— Tom Hanks

He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.

— Saint Augustine

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

— Pat Buchanan

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like…

— Jeffrey Donovan

In my own life, my parents divorced when I was young. I lived with my dad, not with my mum, after they…

— Andrew Haigh

It's hard for me to play this loving, supportive father/husband/ friend on TV but be the guy in life that is telling…

— Damon Wayans

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

— Scott Howell

My dad was a very calm figure in my life and I have only good memories of him. We had a very…

— Paul Whitehouse

I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films,…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were…

— Dominique Moceanu

The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus . As we do our…

— Max Lucado

One of the reasons that people are so fascinated by Jared Kushner is that he has had no role at all in…

— Sarah Ellison

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

“Dad pressed against my mind. Please, Allison. Let me, just this once, hold my son. I shouldn't. Nothing good ever came from…

— Devon Monk

And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean…

— Donald Miller

We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west…

— Red Cloud

I have a certain memory of the way in which my father loved me until I was 10, and it was unconditional…

— Sterling K. Brown

My father told me that some voices are so true they can be used as weapons, can maneuver the weather, change time.…

— Joy Harjo

I always looked up to my mother. My father was never around.

— Cedric Alexander

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.

— Simon Soloveychik

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

— Dia Mirza

Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.

— Jared Kushner

Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.

— Alistair Begg

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

— Damien Hirst

“my father obsesses over everything current and cool to the point he can karaoke to Gaga,”

— Rachel Higginson

I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

— Vincent Cassel

Totally different challenges, but being a dad and fighting both wear you out.

— Chuck Liddell

My father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong.

— Jorge Posada

My dad provided me with a great way of life, and he was very charitable man.

— Jason Bonham

I'm completely excited and confident going into fatherhood.

— Omarion

I'm just trying to be a father. Raise a daughter and a son.

— Toby Keith

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

— Lydia M. Child

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

— Carl Spitteler