Father Quotes · Page 107

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

— Brennan Manning

My most important jobs are to be a father and a husband, and so some things have to wait.

— Christopher Jackson

My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.

— James Nicoll

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

— Margaret Turnbull

One of my father's better tendencies is to take in human beings who have somehow been led astray.

— Cord Jefferson

Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.

— Nargis Fakhri

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every…

— Kim Kardashian

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I…

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the…

— Richie Havens

My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the…

— Max Miller

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

— Margaret Atwood

I believe that my father has become an ongoing symbol of what it means to keep on fighting for what is good…

— Hunter Biden

Since I have become a father, I have kept a certain amount of time away for spending with my son. I don't…

— Ranvir Shorey

The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in…

— Barack Obama

You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround…

— Brendan I. Koerner

I was only a young girl of 13 when my father passed away from a sudden heart attack, leaving us unprepared to…

— Chanda Kochhar

The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as…

— Henry David Thoreau

So instead she settled on, "Did my father put you up to this?" Hale exhaled a quick laugh and shook his head.…

— Ally Carter

Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's…

— Robert Lacey

“She caught her father one day at breakfast, between ministers with tactical problems and councillors with strategic ones. His face lit up…

— Robin McKinley

To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted…

— Anonymous

If I can keep myself worthy here, if I can be true to gospel commandments, if I can keep covenants that I…

— Lance B. Wickman

There's not one second that I don't think about my dad.

— Cheryl Burke

My mother played guitar by ear, and all of us sang except my father, bless his heart.

— Keala Settle

My father is scariest person but also ……… . . . . but also the most caring person

— Satish Yo

My father, Orest, worked as a mechanic for the CNR and he got transferred to Dauphin from Winnipeg.

— Barry Trotz

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

“My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples. John 15:8”

— Beth Moore

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

— Henry Cavill

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

— Al Roker

Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God

— Rick Riordan

He who strikes his father or mother his hand will grow out of the grave.

— Vikrant Parsai

“He had a daddy, but he’d never get to know his father, and the knowledge of that pained me every day.”

— Isabella Starling

I've learned great lessons from my parents for things on the court and off. I really look up to them.

— Dwyane Wade

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.

— Nicole Krauss

Once, I lost my father and tennis helped me to go through that tough loss.

— Aryna Sabalenka

My father was my hero. I can't say enough about him and everything he did for me and my family.

— Jean Smart

My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.

— Yasmine Hamdan