Father Quotes · Page 114

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

— Tecumseh

The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.

— Ken Griffey, Jr

The truth is you may be far happier as a bachelor, but you are far more at peace as a father.

— Sajid Khan

My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.

— Giovanna Cau

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.

— Colin Powell

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

— Bobby Womack

“The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4”

— Judith Lewis Herman

As her father had so often said... Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm not completely Jewish, if you know what I mean. I know people want me to be. My father is Jewish. My…

— Julian Edelman

[CNN, USA Today] they've got 24 hours to fill. You know, how many times can Anna Nicole Smith's baby get a new father?

— Jon Stewart

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

— Brad Paisley

Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.

— Marcel Duchamp

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

— Warren Farrell

I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than…

— Brandon Lee

The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.

— Kathryn Kuhlman

There is no doubt in my mind that I was going to do what my father did, but it wasn't kind of…

— Synyster Gates

He was a very strict father, which in a way has helped me to become who I am today. He never pampered…

— Ram Charan

Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would…

— Dallas Willard

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs.…

— Alan Lomax

It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of…

— Naveen Jain

If I were paying to display images of my father [like Netflix does] in the United States, I am sure I would…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

There isn't what my father called the cruising hostility of the English press - where they're looking around for something to attack.…

— Martin Amis

A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive…

— Gerhard Richter

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

— Ally Carter

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

— Indira Gandhi

Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.

— Claire Tomalin

My father will forever be the best man and the best human being I have ever known in my life.

— Melina Perez

My father is the CEO, and there's no question he is my boss. But we work very much in tandem.

— Linda Johnson Rice

I had first-hand experience watching my father's health decline over the stretch of 13 years.

— Jim Nantz

Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.

— Frederick Douglass

“A whore Ailean may have been, but a loving, caring whore who adored his offspring and mate.”

— G.A. Aiken

You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.

— Goodman Ace

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

— Mason Cooley

“Do not trust and depend on someone as a godfather but accept God the father of all fathers.”

— Osunsakin Adewale

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

— William Steig

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

— Ziggy Marley

My father had a way of exposing himself, of showing weakness and still retaining his dignity.

— John Carter Cash