Father Quotes · Page 201

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.

— James Nicoll

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

— Brennan Manning

My most important jobs are to be a father and a husband, and so some things have to wait.

— Christopher Jackson

When my father began playing for Led Zeppelin our family was living in a 14-foot trailer.

— Jason Bonham

Almighty Father, please stop making jerks. Amen...Break!

— Tim Dorsey

My dad's idea of a good time is to go to Sears and walk around.

— Jay Leno

My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.

— David Steinberg

I used to write three- and four-part harmonies for my YWCA club in high school. We used to win all the song…

— Nancy Sinatra

You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.

— Max Lucado

To mothers who are raising their children without a father in the home, I promise you that as you speak of Jesus…

— Neil L. Andersen

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy…

— Nikola Tesla

My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are…

— Chantal Akerman

I remember my father, when I was a kid, retiring me on 50. He never used to let me bat past 50.…

— Michael Clarke

Whether I'm writing a novel about a guy mourning the death of his father or whether I'm writing a show about people…

— Jonathan Tropper

I have a huge connect with South. My father can speak fluent Tamil. He studied in Bengaluru. My brother studied in Kodaikanal.…

— Sussanne Khan

The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts…

— Roberto Calasso

Unlike some people, my father would try to meet with President-elect Trump because he recognizes that in order to move the agenda…

— Bernice King

Don't let this[football] be the best thing that ever happens in your life. Maybe it'll be the best sports event, but don't…

— Mack Brown

It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my…

— Albert Schweitzer

We were raised by such a perfectionist father who always wanted us to be at our best. I had good grades in…

— Lux Pascal

“He who loves father and mother more than me is not worthy of me.' That's not really cruel. Loving Christ more than…

— William Sloane Coffin

“The young man, who intends no ill, Believes that none is intended, and therefore Acts with openness and candor: but his father,…

— Samuel Johnson

If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last…

— Pope Martin I

What I have inherited from my father is my passion for my work which is my music.

— Tulsi Kumar

Only reprobates father children and then abandon them.

— Ben Shapiro

One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.

— Iyanla Vanzant

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

— Muhammad

“Father always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees either.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

— Indira Gandhi

My father was always much more willing to laugh than to go to the darkness.

— John Carter Cash

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

— Michael Bergin

My parents are a great source of help and support for me.

— Esha Deol

My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.

— Clara Mamet

“She’s the woman I love. The woman my sick fucker of a father doesn’t want me to love”

— Abbi Glines

“My father was always good enough he never broke a bone,”

— Tamara White

Poisinet's verses are like spoiled children - loved only by their father.

— Sophie Arnould

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.

— Anthony Kiedis

I will never be your father. But when ever you need a Dad/Daddy that is what I am here for.

— Mike Deeves

No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free.

— Muhammad