Father Quotes · Page 73

Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.

— Alistair Begg

Sick kids almost never go to their father's side of the bed to announce they're going to barf.

— Julie Ann Barnhill

Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!

— Kenneth More

“As a fatherless son, so a sonless father will be embraced by none. —FERDOWSI, Shahnameh”

— Orhan Pamuk

It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.

— Ziggy Marley

My father spoke several languages and he had hundreds of books.

— Michele Lamy

My parents never let the color of our skin be an excuse for why we did not succeed.

— Bill Duke

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

— George Washington

I was brought up in a very Catholic environment. My father has Lebanese roots. I grew up on the North coast of…

— Shakira

Apart from my dad, James is the most driven man I've ever met. They both have the attitude that there's plenty of…

— Chloe Madeley

My parents got divorced for the same reason that most people's parents get divorced: the relationship had stopped working. I was about…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

When I was three, my father was three. When I was six, he was six... he needed me to escape from being 50.

— Christopher Robin Milne

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows…

— Joss Whedon

Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew…

— Dan Hill

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our…

— Louise Leakey

I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In…

— Andrew Wyeth

Let us quake before the great Spirit, Who is my God, Who has made me know God, Who is God there above,…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I feel like there's this misconception that immigrants come here and just don't care about the system and paying taxes, and that's…

— Diane Guerrero

As Latter-day Saints we must ever be vigilant. The way for each person and each family to guard against the slings and…

— Spencer W. Kimball

My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It…

— Don Ameche

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti…

— Emma Thompson

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

— Eugene Field

I owe my success to Allah and my parents who have sacrificed so much to get me where I am.

— Javed Ali

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

— Kenyon Martin

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

— C. S. Lewis

I am all-giving like my mother and practical like my father.

— Jackie Shroff

“[My father] had a name for the bottom of the sky--'the hem of heaven.”

— Nancy Horan

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

— Mandy Patinkin

“My father’s on my radar, but most of the time I shut it off.”

— Nick Flynn

I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that.

— Nagma

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.

— Irina Shayk

I have teenage boys and I think teenage boys require a father to have eyeballs on them at all times.

— Miguel Ferrer

“Father and son: each was locked in a deep, dark embrace with his secrets.”

— Haruki Murakami

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

— Jonathan Swift

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

— James Gandolfini

I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.

— Oksana Masters