Father Quotes · Page 84

My father use to say if coal died, the country died. He was right. Our economy rests on the back of the…

— Homer Hickam

Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home…

— Bill O'Reilly

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

— Richard Burton

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

— Francis Ford Coppola

We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they…

— Joseph Priestley

My father - a Lebanese-origin small businessman - had a stroke in 1997 and couldn't work anymore. I paused my career and…

— Fernando Haddad

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government,…

— Gerald R. Ford

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

— Eunice Kennedy Shriver

The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie…

— Bruce Nauman

I'm actually Cuban-born, born in 1956, the year Fidel Castro came into power, and my father moved my family to Miami a…

— Steven Bauer

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three…

— Carol Vorderman

My father was a very fun dad; he was always coaching our soccer sports teams, he made sure that we had activities…

— Milo Ventimiglia

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get…

— Dave Chappelle

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

— Ken MacLeod

I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.

— Christopher Walken

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is…

— Theodor Herzl

Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would…

— Henry B. Eyring

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they…

— Margaret Atwood

This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before…

— Barack Obama

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool…

— Jeff Bridges

I am the younger version of my father. I try to be as normal as I can.

— Divock Origi

“In choosing, moreover, for his father an amiable man of fifty-two, who had already lost an only son, and for his mother…

— John Galsworthy

My father was my mother's home, the one place that she knew she could be safe. It was all a journey of…

— Rula Jebreal

The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect...Meaningful progress can be…

— Marvin J. Ashton

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

— Steve Martin

I was born and raised in Rogers Park in Chicago. My father sold furniture, and my mother was a Chicago public school…

— Jan Schakowsky

When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my…

— Jesse Jackson

My mum and dad gave me every single opportunity in life they could and I want to do the same for Albi.…

— Paul Mullin

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father…

— John Irving

“It is a wise father who knows his own child.”

— William Shakesphere

But, did the Divinity [of Christ] suffer? [...] The holy fathers explained this point through the aforementioned clear example of the red-hot…

— Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

I'm sure my father would applaud the explosion of youth activism that has emerged in response to the gun violence pandemic. I'm…

— Martin Luther King III

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

— Red Auerbach

Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the…

— Brigham Young

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

— Thomas Jefferson

“was your father, and a gentleman. Indeed, he was highly”

— Oscar Wilde

I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.

— Ezra Taft Benson

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

— John Ashcroft