Father Quotes · Page 196

“I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.”

— Jim Butcher

I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.

— Jim Gaffigan

“If God is our father you thought, than Satan must be our cousin.”

— Maynard James Keenan

“The Father is always intimately entwined in our struggles". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

I knew two things from my father: keep working hard, stay humble, and someday you'll be OK.

— Eric Yuan

My dad didn't drive - the only dad I knew who didn't.

— Julie Burchill

Any fool can make a baby, but it takes a man to raise a child

— Anonymous

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

— Jack Nicholson

I've been fascinated with technology since I was a boy banging around on my father's adding machine. Back then I'd type in…

— Michael Dell

The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for…

— Helen Andelin

“his dad “putting them on a table with me so I got to play with them.” He watched with fascination as his…

— Walter Isaacson

There was this moment in my father's house where he said, 'My wife, she never had any kids and I never had…

— Erika Jayne

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how…

— John Malkovich

“If e’er the Jew her father come to heaven, It will be for his gentle daughter’s sake; And never dare misfortune cross…

— William Shakespeare

“My father hadn’t ruined me. It was impossible to ruin a person who had never been formed correctly to begin with, but…

— Lyla Payne

When I was working on my father's salon, I was fascinated by hair products. I thought it was so cool that you…

— Brad Mondo

“When your own father never, ever laughs at you, not even when your little twisted movements are unbearably cute, when there's never…

— P. Carey Reid

Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she…

— Quincy Jones

My dad has always instilled in me that I can do anything I want and he always tells me: 'Just don't limit…

— Coco Gauff

My father's rooms, as a child, were a very exciting place to be. Not only because of the beautiful models who were…

— David Linley

We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in…

— Nicolas Cage

If you're normal, if you're healthy, you look at your children and you see your image, and you want the best for…

— Mark Lowry

Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I…

— William Blake

I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and…

— Khaled Hosseini

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

— Red Auerbach

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

— Jesus Christ

I understand the repercussions of following in my father's footsteps.

— Shruti Haasan

I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn't happened.

— Hisham Matar

Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper.

— Colin Falconer

Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough

— Wilhelm Busch

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

— Bruce Willis

My father taught me boxing and showed me what this beautiful sport means.

— Vasyl Lomachenko

“He maybe be a jerk...but he is my jerk...he is my father. - Amber Brown”

— Paula Danziger

My parents let me and my brother do what we wanted to do as long as we did it the right way.

— Ryan Zimmerman

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.

— Jessica Mauboy

My dad empowered me and made me believe I could accomplish whatever I set my mind to.

— Jeanie Buss

My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.

— Kate DiCamillo

I lost my father. He had diabetes and high BP and so he died of kidney failure.

— Varun Sharma

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

— Thierry Henry

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

— Peter Kreeft