Father Quotes · Page 183

Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.

— Jack Lowden

“That is a definite no-no in the Good Father Handbook.”

— Carrie Jones

Being a good father is the single greatest contribution a man can make to this world.

— Anonymous

My father's a fanatic for national parks, and every childhood trip was pretty much to national parks.

— Josh Holloway

What people like me need is not a father figure, but a role model.

— Jay Blades

Its easy as 123 to make a baby... its takes a real man to stick around, love, and raise the baby...

— Kevin Mccarty

I kept thinking my father would come back, But he never did.

— Alex Rodriguez

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

— John Lewis

I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.

— Alaina Huffman

My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked…

— Vince Vaughn

Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is…

— Mark Hart

“Perhaps I'm acting as you would have when you were a younf man. Father. Don't I remind you of the person you…

— Michelle Elaine Lowe

After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our…

— Wladimir Klitschko

When you look at my father's works, he systematically dated everything. He also wanted to document what he knew would be the…

— Claude Picasso

“It seems to me now, if I was to find Father at home to-night, I should behave different; but there’s no knowing…

— George Eliot

The message was that .. fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children.

— Dan Quayle

“When Kevin Costner asks his dad at the end if he’d like to have a catch, I just completely lose my shit.…

— Kevin Hearne

Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas…

— William P. Young

Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly…

— Charles Dickens

Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and…

— Gretel Ehrlich

“My father he always say that the oil is already inside the student, already there from all time. The teacher only has…

— Roland Merullo

Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our…

— Henry B. Eyring

Christ was on display early in my childhood. Both my mother and father were living examples of what it meant to live…

— Aaron Kampman

We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes…

— Dallas Willard

“My father, Tom Sheeran, would borrow a big old clumsy car with a running board.”

— Charles Brandt

The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.

— Steve Farrar

I am very proud of my father and what he's accomplished. It is amazing.

— Ivanka Trump

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

— Jodi Picoult

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

— John Lithgow

I am a very easy-going father at home - I am more of a friend than a parent.

— Randhir Kapoor

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

— Richard P. Feynman

I took up 'Waqt' and 'Gandhi My Father' because they were very too special to be missed.

— Shefali Shah

“You can't put a limit on aything. The more you dream, the father you get.”

— Michael Phelps

I've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life.

— Naomi Campbell

I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.

— Evelyn Keyes

The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . .

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

— Randy Harrison

“The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.”

— Joan Frances Casey

I lost my biological father at nine, but up until then, we celebrated Christmas and Easter too.

— Dia Mirza