Father Quotes · Page 166

Our parents are beyond proud that we never sold out once and created something together.

— Erin Foster

I'd be honored to buy you a Father's Day meal with the credit card you pay for.

— Anonymous

My father has this insane, all-consuming passion for sports.

— Travis Knight

Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.

— Sherwood Anderson

My uncle was a second father to me. I spent most of my childhood with him.

— Rey Mysterio

My father set up his first business in the 1970s so that he could support his family.

— Priti Patel

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive…

— Richard Dawkins

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a…

— Saint Augustine

There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people…

— Ziggy Marley

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very…

— John Dyer

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

— Mark Ronson

My father very early on had both short and long-term strategies in his approach to raising his children, so my father was…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust…

— Winston Churchill

Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything…

— Saad Hariri

How do you know I wouldn't have just been happy with the truth? I don’t care if my father was a deadbeat…

— Maggie Stiefvater

There's this idea, particularly in pop music and a lot of these pop father/manager types, that you're selling the person instead of…

— Win Butler

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was…

— Christian Bale

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

A lot of these kids have no fathers, and they want to be gangsters. They don't believe in God and have no…

— Bobby Slayton

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at…

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

[Fatherhood] is everything… The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world… We put in long days. And…

— Brad Pitt

There's a lot of love in my house. I have the greatest parents ever.

— Tye Sheridan

My dad's been like, 'You'll never beat me.' That's how my dad is.

— Austin Rivers

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

— Hank Williams, Jr

“Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs are leaders.”

— Abhijit Naskar

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my…

— Sam Shepard

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

— Suraj Sharma

With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

— Mekhi Phifer

My dad is the opposite of me. He's so outgoing and so loud.

— Jahlil Okafor

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

— Quintilian

A true sign of a good man is if he loves his father and mother.

— Vikrant Parsai

My parents taught me that I could always improve on things.

— Alex Zanardi

I wouldn't say my dad was a slave driver, but he wanted the best for us.

— Matt Hughes

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

— Anonymous

I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).

— Barry Bonds

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

— Cissy Houston

“neither without the goodwill of the Father nor without the agency of the Son, can any man know God.”

— The Church Fathers