Father Quotes
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One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.
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People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.
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The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.
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My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.
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Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.
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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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My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
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I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.
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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.
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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
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'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.
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I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing softly down. Growing up, the 'Our Father' was lovely, made for me, the 'Hail Mary' was gorgeous, and 'Glory Be to the Father' was an absolute nightmare.
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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.
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My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.
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If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.
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I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to have done. I didn't want to go to university. The only other thing I could do was paint, and so I went to art school because they couldn't conceive of how one would be an actor.
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I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.
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I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.
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My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.
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Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.
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The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational.
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Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by.
