Father Quotes · Page 189

My dad wouldn't even start the car until he heard the click of every seat belt.

— Drew Lachey

“You can't experience the Father's embrace until you first embrace your earthly father's experience.”

— Bob Parr

My father was a very humble and down to earth man, and was known for being very honest and trustworthy.

— Wissam Al Mana

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

— Lupe Fiasco

That moment when she tells you that your the father and you go up stairs to pack your bags and she says

— Anonymous

“Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt of a service.”

— Jeane Westin

“The thing is, my father has about as much rhythm as a drunken octopus […]”

— Mark Peter Hughes

The only dream I have in my life is to be a little piece of my dad, because he was really happy.

— Alessandro Michele

Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted…

— Matt Taibbi

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to…

— Learned Hand

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a…

— Albert Brooks

I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in…

— W. G. Sebald

For lunch I like corned beef, white rice and fried onions, which I've eaten for as long as I can remember. My…

— Chris Eubank Sr

My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way

— Ali Shariati

'Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights' (Jms. 1:17). But there is…

— Pope Dionysius

I think previously, when fathers and sons argued with each other, they would still face each other and face each other's feelings,…

— Jia Zhangke

I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

An effective father devotes himself to become an instrument and model of human experience to his children... accepts and affirms his children…

— Gordon MacDonald

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing…

— Abraham Lincoln

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof,…

— Michael Chabon

[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the…

— Mona Charen

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If…

— Stephen King

O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.

— Emmeline B. Wells

My father was a banker, and my mother worked for the state government.

— Urmila Matondkar

My beauty icon is the love between my mother and father.

— Stella Maxwell

“The tiny share we have of time appalls me, though my father seems to regard it with tranquillity.”

— Alice Munro

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

— Jonathan Winters

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

— Pink

I'm a good dad and a fair husband, and I work quite a bit.

— John Schneider

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

— Jim Rohn

Our parents have always encouraged us to be independent and dream big.

— Jenna Bush

If you don't know the advantage of a women, go and ask your father.

— Anas Alobobo

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

— David Alan Grier

Mum worked in telecommunications and Dad was a mechanic.

— Monica Galetti

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

— Mike Oldfield

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

— Anonymous

I got that sense of travel and adventure from my father.

— Charley Boorman

I didn't meet my father until I was in the fourth grade.

— Katie Cassidy