Father Quotes · Page 195

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

— Roger Sherman

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

— Carl Spitteler

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

— Lydia M. Child

I'm just trying to be a father. Raise a daughter and a son.

— Toby Keith

I'm completely excited and confident going into fatherhood.

— Omarion

“There are a lot of people in the world, I think, who could learn a lot from my dad.”

— Nicholas Sparks

I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.

— Stephanie McMahon

I've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that instilled in me.

— John Krasinski

“Father, I am welling over with limpid joy! No sicklying taint of sorrow overlies the lucid lake of liquid love, upon which,…

— W.S. Gilbert

“If a man has been your teacher for a day, you should treat him as your father for the rest of his…

— Wu Cheng'en

My father is a liar and so am I. But I’m going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you…

— Justine Larbalestier

My father was always a child in his heart. When he was with us it was always fun with ice cream and…

— Cedella Marley

My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then,…

— David Bryan

“Being a dad is about more than the good and the bad, it's also about taking the time to treasure what you…

— Brooke and Keith Desserich

So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave…

— Kim Edwards

My mother has learnt classical singing from renowned artiste Druba Ghosh at Sangeet Mahabharati, a music school. During my vacations, my father…

— Madhura Naik

Children are very quick observers; very quick in seeing through some kinds of hypocrisy, very quick in finding out what you really…

— J. C. Ryle

I've known Owen's father Ron [Suskind] for years, and this was based on his best-selling book ["Life, Animated"]. We worked together as…

— Roger Ross Williams

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into…

— Rahul Gandhi

Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always…

— Rawi Hage

My father and grandfather were stockbrokers, and they would actually take stock certificates from a vault, give it to a runner, and…

— Jamie Dimon

I think I definitely want to blame my parents on this one. One of the things about having a minister for a…

— Matt Ruff

[T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three ... not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in…

— Tertullian

I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started…

— Hanya Yanagihara

My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

We used to go to the jazz fest in Kansas City. And my mother and father took me.

— David Steward

My dad was always a motivation, even when he wasn't there.

— Jorge Masvidal

Men cause about as many problems as we solve, but there's no harm in being a good father to your child.

— Anonymous

“He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.”

— Robertson Davies

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

— Denis Diderot

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?

— Alice Sebold

Howdy, howdy, howdy. Never goodbye. Gonna see my mother, gonna see my father.

— Kim Burrell

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.

— Theodore Roethke

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

— Kim Edwards

Unfortunately, I never knew my father and when I did, it was very briefly.

— Francis Capra

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

— George Herbert

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

— Mike Myers

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

— Eddie Vedder

“My father always said never offer a choice if there's only one right answer”

— Stacey Kade

I'm a father now. I've got a beautiful kid. I'm a little more wiser.

— Dion Waiters