Father Quotes · Page 106

I am choosy about my films, period - whether it's my father directing it or anybody else.

— Pooja Bhatt

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

— James Cronin

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

— Charles Wadsworth

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

— Poppy Z. Brite

Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

— Oswald Chambers

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

— Mo Rocca

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

— Gordon Ramsay

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

— Corrie Ten Boom

“as we do direct our faith towards the Son, so also should we possess a firm and immoveable love towards the Father.”

— The Church Fathers

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

— Malik Yoba

Good father must have at least these three things: Love to the wife, fear of the God, and compassion to the children.

— Michael Sams

My father and I never really achieved a real relationship. We probably saw each other 20 or 25 times in our lifetime.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'

— Margaret Thatcher

My life isn't going to stop because my father's dead and my trolls won't stop and people won't stop writing about me.

— Caroline Calloway

He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his…

— Saint Patrick

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

— Pat Buchanan

This really isn't a game we really should be proud of. This game is liking taking your kids to the zoo. You're…

— Shaquille O'Neal

Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of…

— Alice Sebold

Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had…

— Gordon Getty

My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once…

— Clara Shih

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I've been friends with Jaco Pastorius's son since 1996 - Johnny Pastorius, the eldest son. And I remember when I first met…

— Robert Trujillo

I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a…

— Stefano Gabbana

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my…

— Josef Albers

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

— Camille Paglia

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

— Eddie Izzard

My entire family are in music and my father was a classical singer, teacher and composer.

— Kumar Sanu

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.

— Seamus Heaney

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

— Kid Rock

My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!

— Spike Milligan

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

— Park Geun-hye

I always had a work ethic. And I think I very much got that from my father and my mother.

— John Waters

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A father is not someone who puts pictures up online, but has not seen them in five years.

— Anonymous

Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Orhan Pamuk

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.

— Anonymous

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

— Mark Wahlberg

“Fathers are strong. Mothers are wise. Children are curious. Grandparents are endearing.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.

— Terrence Howard