Father Quotes · Page 193

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.

— Samuel Chadwick

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

— Patty Jenkins

We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

— Desmond Tutu

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

— Dennis Wilson

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter…!!!! A daughter is a gift of love...!!!!

— Pooja

“It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

I didn't grow up in a voting culture. My father didn't push voting on me, my mother didn't push voting on me.…

— Jelly Roll

My father would give his dinner to any hungry kids who walked by and then go in the backyard and pick weeds…

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

“Just us two men," my father said, my father who had so longed for a son that he had flown paper planes--adoption…

— Marcus Samuelsson

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand…

— Richard Bach

My father used to control the wholesale of many ice-cream items in Middlesbrough. He was central distributor for most of the region.

— Chris Rea

When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how…

— Michael Douglas

“The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were…

— Frank Beddor

My father he was very dominant. He was the king of the castle, you know what I'm saying? Don't say 'why, Daddy?',…

— Lisa Left Eye

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

I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels…

— Fabian Perez

“If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land.…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect…

— Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

“Damn right! The time of your life! Gotta wrap up all those life events, all those parties, into one - birthdays, wedding,…

— Neal Shusterman

I always regretted that I never had the chance to tell Dad how great I thought he was.

— Jason Bonham

I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.

— Douglas Tompkins

My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

— Raf Simons

Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend.

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“A successful father is not more successful than his children.”

— Raheel Farooq

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

— Patricia Briggs

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

— David Rockefeller

My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.

— Zoe Wanamaker

Now that I'm a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

— Ruby Bridges

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.

— Hermione Gingold

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

— Kim Edwards

To think that Woody was in any way a father or stepfather to me is laughable.

— Soon-Yi Previn

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

— Gareth Gates

“He threatened Liam with assault, that’s why I didn’t go to the police. I couldn’t put it on my dad.”

— Stephanie John

Whatever I do in life, my parents always taught me to focus on that, and they never let me quit.

— Cassie Scerbo