Father Quotes · Page 163

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

— Roger Sherman

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

— Brion James

“The best thing in a girl’s life is a father she can count on.”

— Kristan Higgins

Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.

— George Washington

My father served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers for many years.

— Lesley Sharp

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

— William Hurt

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

— Marianne Faithfull

With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.

— Bindi Irwin

Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't…

— Garth Nix

I'm a single father, I don't like to be away from my son. So I'll go out, make a film and come…

— Dean Cain

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.

— Eric Lindros

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such…

— Suzy Amis

As the Father useth this expression I AM, so also doth Christ, for it signifieth continuous being, irrespective of all time.

— John Chrysostom

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth -…

— Michael Hainey

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his…

— Benjamin Franklin

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language,…

— Helen Vendler

Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me…

— Tony Robbins

“Tad they were too young to die…My Mom was a spitfire—a total accident waiting to happen. I’m like her—I can trip over…

— Cassandra Giovanni

The Founding Fathers and our fathers are rolling over in their graves as this great country voluntarily abandons its dreams of equal…

— David Limbaugh

Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine…

— William M. Evarts

Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view…

— Christopher West

The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you…

— Winona LaDuke

First of all, we have exactly the opposite type of audiences, for obvious reasons. So the competition is not going to be…

— Antonio Banderas

I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in.…

— Timothy B. Schmit

My dad was always a motivation, even when he wasn't there.

— Jorge Masvidal

We used to go to the jazz fest in Kansas City. And my mother and father took me.

— David Steward

My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that instilled in me.

— John Krasinski

I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.

— Stephanie McMahon

“There are a lot of people in the world, I think, who could learn a lot from my dad.”

— Nicholas Sparks

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

— Kim Edwards

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.

— Theodore Roethke

Howdy, howdy, howdy. Never goodbye. Gonna see my mother, gonna see my father.

— Kim Burrell

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

— Denis Diderot

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?

— Alice Sebold

“He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.”

— Robertson Davies

Men cause about as many problems as we solve, but there's no harm in being a good father to your child.

— Anonymous

My dad instilled in me a warrior like spirit that I've applied towards life.

— Bruce Buffer

My dad always taught me if I have my education, anything is possible.

— Romeo Miller

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

— Mavis Staples