Father Quotes · Page 191

My parents taught me that it is my responsibility to make sacrifices for those after me.

— Bill Duke

“Any man can become a father, but it takes a devoted man to become a daddy.”

— Wilfred Bostwick

Life as a single father has taught me many things. Particularly that love only makes everything easier.

— Anonymous

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

— Nicolas Cage

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.

— Carrie Fisher

We are lucky to be blessed with a baby on Father's Day.

— Mandira Bedi

I encourage all Americans to express admiration and appreciation to fathers.

— George W. Bush

If my father is walking around going, 'Mmm, pussy,' he's thinking about eating the cat.

— Greg Behrendt

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it:…

— Yukio Mishima

When your Dad was the creator of 'Moby Dick' you kind of steer clear of getting compared in a solo-ing aspect.

— Jason Bonham

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about…

— Joe Biden

My parents said to us, practically on a daily basis, that we were as good as anyone else on this earth, and…

— Jessye Norman

“He is wise who makes the desire of the Father his work. As a fisher of men —he searches, gathers and receives…

— Dennis S. Ametepe

In that portion of time where my parents were together, I got to see great love, great loyalty, and teamwork.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated,…

— Dave Van Ronk

The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction…

— R. C. Sproul

We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created…

— Calvin Coolidge

All that the Father giveth me SHALL COME... Here, therefore, the Lord Jesus positively determineth to put forth such a sufficiency of…

— John Bunyan

My mother was scared every time I drove. But my father was a Scottish karting champion and bought me my first kart…

— David Coulthard

Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed…

— Oliver Wolcott

God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us…

— Mary Howitt

My father was the captain of a cargo ship. When I was about two years old, we used to sail with him.…

— Jim Sarbh

“It is this personal knowledge that is the basis of discipleship, and it involves more than reading the Bible, memorizing Scripture, and…

— Robby Gallaty

And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the…

— Charles Kingsley

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

— Richard Flanagan

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

— Lawrence Welk

My parents are really supportive of everything I do.

— Amber Liu

I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.

— Renato Dulbecco

It was much easier for me to endure the belittling than it was to watch my dad get belittled.

— George W. Bush

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.

— Anne Lamott

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

— Dan Brown

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

— Matt Damon

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

— Nick Lachey

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.

— W. G. Sebald

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

— Umberto Eco

My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.

— Chuck Berry

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

— Louise Brown

I think only thing gonna stop me from this party lifestyle is me becoming a father.

— Anonymous

My dad was an ironworker and my mom retired from our public schools.

— Ben Ray Lujan

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

— Laurence Steinberg