Father Quotes · Page 163

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

— Mike Oldfield

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

— Anonymous

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

— Confucius

“Potter, you really are just as foolish and preposterously self-absorbed as your father.”

— G. Norman Lippert

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

— Bill Ayers

My dad was an old school guy, but my mom was very much like 'you feel what you need to feel.'

— Channing Frye

When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.

— Indira Gandhi

I want to be remembered as a loving, understanding father.

— Robert Gossett

There were times when our dad was awesomely good with us, but my biggest and most abiding memory is that he would…

— James Haven

I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in…

— Boman Irani

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making…

— Rick Santelli

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we…

— Michel Houellebecq

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.

— Giles Foden

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

— Youssou N'Dour

I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music…

— Xavier Rudd

Heavenly Father offers to you the greatest gift of all—eternal life—and the opportunity and infinite blessing of your own “happily ever after.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment…

— Sheri L. Dew

My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might…

— George Muller

I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It…

— Renee Fleming

Will sat where he was, gazing at the silver bowl in front of him; a white rose was floating in it, and…

— Cassandra Clare

Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,'…

— Allison Janney

If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“I wanted to say, Who am I to do this, a woman? But that voice was not mine. It was Father's voice.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want…

— Loudon Wainwright III

My father was a filmmaker but he made B-grade films. However, he always aimed at making a big film.

— Sajid Khan

After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

— Evan Esar

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

— Steve Case

Growing up without a father has made fatherhood harder for me.

— Ashley Walters

“A child doesn’t know the call of his pastor father. All he knows is the effects it has on his life.”

— Barnabas Piper

My dad died when I was a freshman in high school. I got a little bit of farmland.

— Doug Burgum

My dad is my idol. I'm very proud of him. Every day he gives me some tips of what I can do.

— Domantas Sabonis

Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.

— Grantland Rice

“That anyone could father a child, but a real man chooses to be a dad.”

— J. Sterling

Same-sex 'marriage' selfishly and deliberately deprives children of either a mother or a father.

— Mike Johnson

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

— Broderick Crawford

My father, who worked as a dishwasher, was especially anxious. He did not like being here undocumented.

— Diane Guerrero

Mind you, I'm going into the bedroom now to talk things over with Heavenly Father

— Martha H. Tingey

I'm a patriot... Like my late father who came here and served his country as a member of the U.S. Army.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

My grandfather, father, and uncle were chefs, and my other uncle was a butcher.

— Marco Pierre White

My songs would be nothing had it not been for my father. I follow his footsteps.

— Asha Bhosle