Father Quotes · Page 74

I consider myself a B-minus mom. I think I would be considered an A-plus dad.

— Kim Brooks

My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.

— Jesmyn Ward

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.

— Ray Rice

“They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.”

— John Crowley

“The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.”

— Elaine S. Dalton

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

— Chinua Achebe

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

— Ben Gibbard

The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to…

— Robert Lepage

“Dad, I know you want me to earn a diploma, but I can do that at any point in my life, what…

— Paulo Coelho

Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.

— Pastor Maldonado

We shot the video for 'Broken' where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sense of serving our country…

— Patty Smyth

I came from a single parent household. And I had a bad example of what a husband and father could be and…

— Sarah Shahi

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really…

— Sonia Braga

Those who used to ask my father to be ashamed of himself for training us in wrestling now say they wish they…

— Geeta Phogat

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not…

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult…

— Trevor Nunn

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in…

— Karen DeCrow

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I…

— Robert Knepper

When you're around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you're supposed to lead. I say…

— Adam Sandler

“My dad once said... "Some friends are like "rubber wrappers"; they bind with you safely but get weaker when you stretch them…

— Israelmore Ayivor

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what…

— Ernest Istook

My mother is the person I admire the most in this world. I apologise to my father - I know he will…

— Joao Cancelo

Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing…

— George Muller

Father's Day: When you get that lethal combination of alcohol and new power tools.

— David Letterman

My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.

— Bob Monkhouse

I grew up going to movies. My daddy was the projectionist, so we got in for free.

— Angie Dickinson

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

— Lawrence Eagleburger

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

— Lara St. John

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

— Frank Pittman

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

— Daymond John

Temples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father.

— David E. Sorensen

You have to make your own story, and I would love to be known as Ananya Pandey's father.

— Chunky Pandey

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life.

— Anonymous

My parents put cleats and shin guards on me as soon as I could remember.

— Jenna Ortega

If I'm going for advice for anything in my life, I go straight to my father because he has the answers.

— Jessica Simpson

My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.

— Chris Abani

“She couldn’t imagine a father hurting his child. Or a mother failing to protect her child.”

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

— William Golding

I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.

— Harry Dean Stanton