Father Quotes · Page 132

I don't always study. But when I do, I make sure my parents see me.

— Anonymous

I was in my hippie stage. It was tough for my father. First it was the long hair, then the bubbles.

— Tom Noddy

I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful leader.

— Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.

— John Lasseter

The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.

— John Walter Bratton

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

— Timothy J. Russert

“No Son [. . .] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.”

— Ruta Sepetys

When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.

— Mariella Frostrup

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of…

— Dick Gregory

All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently…

— Martin Amis

Around 2015, I started to see my skills diminish. It happens to everybody. Father Time is undefeated. He is gonna win every…

— Mark Henry

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must…

— Sheryl Lee

“He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a…

— David Louden

I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied…

— Michael Cudlitz

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as…

— Mark Leyner

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did…

— Marcia Cross

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the…

— Albert Pike

What worries me most about Trump, other than all of the other crazy things, is that I believe that he wants power…

— Rand Paul

My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join…

— Mick Jagger

My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask…

— Burne Hogarth

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be…

— Mark Twain

We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice…

— Suzy Kassem

Father, show me how to praise Thee When I seek Thy courts to-day; Guide me by Thy love, and raise me --…

— Sarah Doudney

“When he came into the courtyard,” she told him, lying on her side, facing him, “I thought he was my father come…

— Kristin Cashore

Me and my dad :) I don't get to see him much :( but I should more often :)

— Anonymous

He was self-sacrificing in many different ways, and my father was a man of paradoxes.

— John Carter Cash

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

— Jonathan Swift

I always wanted to make my parents feel proud of me.

— Ronan Keating

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

— Jean de la Bruyere

My parents have always been supportive of whatever I've wanted to do.

— Syd

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

— Solomon

My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.

— M.I.A

The best thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.

— Anonymous

Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

— Michael Josephson

“In olden days people said, ‘The father knows his son, the mother, her daughter.”

— Shin Jae

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

— Shannon Hoon

A good father is a man who always bought your toys, before even considering buying his.

— Anonymous

My relationship with my parents is among the greatest gifts of my life.

— Christopher Castellani

Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.

— Michael Ondaatje

I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.

— Dwyane Wade