Father Quotes · Page 109

Coach Spurrier, without question, has been the biggest influence to me, next to my father.

— Bob Stoops

My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

— Christopher Meloni

My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people you're with.

— Mario Van Peebles

I grew up in a family where my father was in a rock band, and I saw and heard every story.

— Domino Kirke

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

— Zinedine Zidane

“Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place”

— G.K. Chesterton

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

— Cary Elwes

My father was in the military; he was a captain. His service was to quote-unquote integrate the Armed Forces overseas.

— Joe Morton

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

You know something, Harry? I think you would have given your father a run for his money, and THAT is saying something.

— Remus Lupin

Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a…

— Henry B. Eyring

My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my…

— Charles Dickens

What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two…

— William Shakespeare

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

— Billy Graham

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement…

— George MacDonald

Your father abandoned us. (Zephyra) I know. You’ve told me that enough that it’s permanently seared into my brain. Still, he’s a…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my…

— John Lithgow

In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

That was my earliest maladaptive coping mechanism I forged when I was a kid. I found that my fists weren't going to…

— Ryan Reynolds

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the…

— John Sergeant Wise

I try to pay as little attention as possible to people who are not part of my team. What counts for me…

— Alexander Zverev

One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my…

— William Zinsser

The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion -…

— Denzel Washington

I learned more about my father in his last 5 to 6 years than I ever did my whole lifetime.

— Jim Breuer

Dangal' worked because it dealt with the universal emotion behind the father and daughter.

— Rajiv Menon

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

— Madeleine Albright

The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.

— Henry B. Eyring

“Thank You, Father, for the freedom to make mistakes while I am learning. —Daniel Schantz”

— Guideposts

I never thought there would be a day when I would have to handle things without my father.

— Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

While I was growing up, I wasn't like, 'My father's a rapper, so I'm going to be one, too.'

— Ice Spice

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

— Mike Deeves

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Chinua Achebe

It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.

— Robert D. Hales

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A father, son, husband or just a friend, a sense of responsibility best describes a person.

— Nikitin Dheer

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

— Winona Ryder

I am a born hunter, like my father, my grandfather, and every man of my family before them.

— Roberto Baggio