Father Quotes · Page 194

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

— Alexandre Dumas

It's fairly traumatizing for a young man to lose what you thought was a father figure.

— Ruben Gallego

I have been incredibly lucky. My parents are actors; they've been the safety blanket around me.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

Listen to your father in your head when you don't know what to do as a parent.

— Jill Zarin

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

— Sarah Addison Allen

He stands up for himself. He's a fighter. That's who my father is.

— Eric Trump

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

— Karamo Brown

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

— Alison Bechdel

In my life, I just have my mother. I don't have a father. When I was just two years old, he passed…

— Bharti Singh

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with…

— Quincy Jones

In 1997, my father appointed me CEO but acted as player-coach, keeping busy on long-term clients such as KFC and international travel brands.

— Richard Edelman

Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter…

— Paul Harvey

“Be a shadow, Hunter. Can you be a shadow? It was one of the first things he'd learned from his father. He's…

— Brigid Kemmerer

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.

— Jeff Bridges

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in…

— Arthur Koestler

My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four…

— Orlando Bloom

If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know…

— Chuck Palahniuk

His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members…

— Anonymous

We often pray to Jesus; we pray to the Father, especially in the 'Our Father'; but not often to the Holy Spirit…Pray…

— Pope Francis

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a…

— Arthur Golden

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions…

— I. L. Peretz

Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em.…

— Anonymous

Our assignment is to see the dominion of God realized into people's lives. It is not an overpowering control, it is a…

— Bill Johnson

In addition to inviting us to hold personal and family scripture study, Heavenly Father wants us to regularly study and apply what…

— Robert D. Hales

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

— Tamsin Greig

I like to fish. I collect pocketknives. I inherited a nice collection from my father and grandfather.

— Chris Stapleton

As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.

— Julian of Norwich

Curtis Axel has more talent than his grandfather and his father.

— Paul Heyman

I've got very little grey hair. It's to do with the genes. My mother and father were the same.

— Prunella Scales

“The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.”

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

“Really, Dad. I understand now about the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.”

— Wendelin Van Draanen

My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

— Jo Brand

“My father and mother did not think they should have brought a superintendent into the world.”

— Martin Luther

“Little god, you see the world through such black eyes." "Got no choice. My father give ’em to me.”

— Frances Hardinge

There's a lot of love in my house. I have the greatest parents ever.

— Tye Sheridan

My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My father set up his first business in the 1970s so that he could support his family.

— Priti Patel

My uncle was a second father to me. I spent most of my childhood with him.

— Rey Mysterio

My father has this insane, all-consuming passion for sports.

— Travis Knight