Father Quotes · Page 100

Being a good father is so overrated...I mean, just ask mine...If you can find him that is...

— Anonymous

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

— Mabel Osgood Wright

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

— Desmond Dekker

My dad taught not only tolerance but appreciation for every human being.

— Ben Howland

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

— Leslie Caron

I had two amazing parents, two younger brothers, grandparents, a supportive community. Really loved.

— Ryan Leaf

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

— Guillermo del Toro

It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.

— Adrienne Rich

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away…

— Chief Joseph

The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the…

— Dorothy Allison

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire…

— Sandra Cisneros

As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop…

— Nikki Haley

“My father believed that the truth was like a wild animal--just let it loose and it will defend itself.”

— Andy Andrews

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long…

— Louis de Bernieres

“...when it comes to defining adulthood, nothing has made me feel more grown-up than knowing that one of the two people in…

— Jean Hannah Edelstein

“My father will hunt you for taking his power if he finds out,” he said into the frigid dark. “And kill you…

— Sarah J. Maas

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's…

— Radhanath Swami

The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or…

— Janusz Korczak

“Very few people get a chance to quantify how much their father loves them. But I did. The job should have taken…

— Andy Weir

My father was a musician, and I've always loved writing. I grew up in New York City during a time when hip…

— El-P

Angel?" I said. "Baby penguins eat a regurgitated mixture of partially digested fish, krill, and an oily substance form their fathers' stomachs.…

— James Patterson

“Wenner began a campaign to get his parents back together. Sim told her son she wanted him to call only every other…

— Joe Hagan

The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can…

— Boyd K. Packer

On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“No father should have to bury his son. No daughter should have to do what I've done.”

— Tracy Bilen

I would always compare myself with the best, and my dad is the best, and he's my idol, too.

— Mick Schumacher

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

— James Joyce

You saved Dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you.

— Anonymous

A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

— Benjamin Franklin

I was very fortunate to have had a mother and father who loved me in spite of my failings.

— George W. Bush

My father always used to ask me what my aim in life is. I used to tell him I don't have any.

— Vijay Sethupathi

My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.

— Lee Marvin

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

— Natasha Trethewey

As a child singer, I never sang a single track for my father or uncle.

— Armaan Malik

One of the greatest honors of a Catholic and Christian is to meet the Holy Father.

— John Bel Edwards

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

— Harper Lee

Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.

— Charles Lindbergh

Thank goodness I was brought up with the grounding of my parents, and taught manners.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.

— Tess Gerritsen

Boys are like drugs,' her father said, 'just say no.

— Jill Shalvis