Father Quotes
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our Heavenly Father does bless us when we show our love for Him in all things.
Margaret D. Nadauld
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Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
Carol Leifer
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I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.
Elizabeth Warren
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I inherited the company from my father after he died very unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1966. He was just 51 years old, and I was 21.
Azim Premji
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My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'
Carol Leifer
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Becoming a father is the natural progression and the next stage after marriage. So the thought of becoming a father is itself an incredible feeling!
Allu Arjun
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The first film I was in was called 'Straight Time.' I was five-years old, and I was playing my father's son.
Jake Busey
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When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother... We might very well have ended up on welfare.
Bernice King
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My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
King George V
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What luck have I? I don’t suppose you’ll be anything but a cheap little accountant yourself - you haven’t any chance to make money with a father like that.
Christina Stead
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My father enlisted at the age of 17. He lied about his age because he wanted to ride the fastest motorbikes, which were with the British army.
Genesis P-Orridge
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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Martin Luther
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I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
Agnes Macphail
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My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother.
Akhil Sharma
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My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I don't know if it's the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.
Joe Pesci
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Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.
David Dinkins
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My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.
Lorraine Bracco
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The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.
Allan Houston
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Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
Oswald Chambers
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Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she Eleanor Roosevelt ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
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My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back.
Chic Murray
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When I pray, I feel close to my Father in Heaven, and I feel His guiding hand in my life. If there is one thing I have learned, it is this: God knows us, He loves us, and He is waiting to help us.
Jane Clayson
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When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.
Leonardo DiCaprio