Father Quotes
-
When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me.
-
I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.
-
'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.
-
The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity.
-
My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.
-
Cisco projects that in 2020, now just five years away, there will be seven billion people on the earth and 50 billion devices connected to the Internet. Six-and-a-half devices on average per person. As a father of five young adults and teenagers, I think we are - in my household, we've exceeded the 6.5 number.
-
'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey.
-
I always make my decisions together with my family, my father. Of course, I hear the advice of everyone who wishes me well, but the final decision is always mine, with my family.
-
Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
-
My mother was a writer. She acted in one film before she decided that Bollywood wasn't good enough for her. My two sisters and I probably learned from her how to get under other people's skin. In contrast, my father was a simple man despite his success at business. He was a people person, and I think that's what led him to join politics.
-
People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.
-
I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.
-
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
-
Dear young friends, the Lord is asking you to be prophets of this new age, messengers of his love, drawing people to the Father and building a future of hope for all humanity.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My father was a big influence - it was very important to him that we traveled, and he gave me my strong work ethic.
-
I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.
-
The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.
-
If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.
-
Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.
-
My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.
-
My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.
-
My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.
