Father Quotes
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Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
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I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.
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I am well aware that, if my endorsement is meaningful and helpful to Huckabee, it is because my father devoted so much of his life and ministry to cultural reform.
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I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.
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My father was a big influence - it was very important to him that we traveled, and he gave me my strong work ethic.
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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
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My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the head of the clan. Every morning, we all had to say good morning and kiss his hand. But not me. I jumped on his lap and bit him.
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The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.
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I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'
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I had a friend who got pregnant at age 14 and wasn't quite sure who the father was. Her paternity test went a little something like this: “If it comes out black, its Darwin's and if it comes out white its Ray's.” This is how things were done in the trailer park.
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I don't think I've ever come to terms with not having had a father around, and that's why I made so many mistakes with men.
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My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
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I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
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Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.
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I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father's childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s.
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My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to prosper.
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I like to fish. I collect pocketknives. I inherited a nice collection from my father and grandfather.
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They tell me 'find God' like I don't know where He at. And if He lost, then why we followin' Him? Just acknowledge the fact that a Father exists, And a Devil's alive...I'm just caught in the mix.
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I'm glad that's one of the things I chose to do as a man - to be a father to my child.
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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 the army. Anything but this. He couldn't believe it. I agree with him: It wasn't a viable career opportunity.
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Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
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The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.
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When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.
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I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young.
