Father Quotes · Page 104

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

— Herodotus

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

— Lawrence Welk

Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.

— Swami Vivekananda

By profession I am a Soldier & take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father.

— Douglas MacArthur

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

— Hope Solo

By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks hes wrong.

— SangFroid Stalker

After playing my father used to coach, we used to follow him around Spain. We used to travel with him to many…

— Marcos Alonso

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

— Homer

My father set a strict regimen for me. He insisted that I learn to play many musical instruments before I choose one.

— Vidyasagar

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Some people are good with children. Others are not. It is a gift. You either have it, or you don't. My father…

— Christopher Robin Milne

My father has been the real anchor of the family. Hes the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and…

— Yvette Clarke

I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

— Ronaldinho

My father is a geologist and he really thinks that scientists are going to save the world, so he wanted me to…

— Lucy Worsley

When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the…

— Nicole Beharie

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Intellectual development was paramount to my father, of course, but he was hardly a geek. He was a man who happened to…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I…

— Lana Del Rey

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would…

— Eric McCormack

“I have looked at my father many times and wondered how he could stand knowing he was my mother’s ruin. He was…

— Ayana Mathis

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers…

— Henrik Ibsen

Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies…

— Trudi Canavan

See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child

— Atisa

God has proven himself as a faithful father. Now it falls to us to be trusting children.

— Max Lucado

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

— William Shakespeare

Let me be clear. 'The Good Father' isn't a handbook on how to assassinate the president.

— Noah Hawley

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Chunky Pandey

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

— Kim Edwards

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

— Richard Leakey

His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

— Kim Edwards

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

— Warren Zevon

“Father, help me to be the one to offer my hand to anyone who needs a little boost. And”

— Guideposts

It is easier for the son to ask from the father than for the father to ask from the son.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Our children is what will be left of us in a generation that we will not be a part of.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Andy Kaufman's mom wanted a girl, his father wanted a boy, and they were both satisfied!

— Jerry Lawler

I couldn't be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad.

— Markie Post

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

— Christopher Jackson