Father Quotes
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
William Wordsworth -
I have multiple identities. I'm British. I'm Pakistani. I'm a Muslim. I'm a writer. I'm a father. And each identity has rich overtones. So I must be careful to look at your identity, and that of others, in the same way.
Ziauddin Sardar
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When you ... see our Father, you will see a being with whom you have long been acquainted, and He will receive you into His arms, and you will be ready to fall into His embrace and kiss Him. ... You will be so glad and joyful. ... When you are qualified and purified, ... you can endure the glory of eternity.
Brigham Young -
By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion.
Mother Teresa -
Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, “Wonderful. Just have a backup profession like welding.
Robin Williams -
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Hedy Lamarr -
If the father is not straight naider will be the son.
Rod Stewart -
Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid if that because they'd just had this experience with this far-away government that had centralized thought process and planning and what have you, and then it was actually the reason that we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown if you will.
Rick Perry
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I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.
Joseph M. Kyrillos -
My father always told me that. "Nobody knows anything, so don't listen to anyone else."
Scott Eastwood -
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
Sean Penn -
I have this colored friend Betty well, I never thought about it one way or the other until one day I went over her house for the first time and her father opened the door and I was surprized to see he was colored. Because, to me I was so used to her she always looked normal.
Bel Kaufman -
Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.
Hilary Mantel -
I'm a father, and that is the absolute most important thing in my life.
Bobby Lashley
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I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.
Eugene Mirman -
My father is an amazing man.
Sherman Alexie -
You're not the to be offered fancy things out of loyalty. A good father doesn't spoil a child with gifts.
Conn Iggulden -
What I try to do now, having won a Grammy with my own performance with them, which is something my father didn’t do which as my mom says, “You got one thing he could never get, he never got a Grammy,” so if I was gonna have one thing. What I try to do is play in his mindset; so it’s his ability to go for it on each night.
Jason Bonham -
I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.
Carrie Fisher -
See! This our fathers did for us.
John Ruskin
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My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
Steven Spielberg -
... I believe the Father came down from heaven, as the apostles said he did, and begat the Saviour of the world; for he is the ONLY-begotten of the Father, which could not be if the Father did not actually beget him in person.... I believe the Father came down in His tabernacle and begat Jesus Christ.
Brigham Young -
And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we’ll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.
Beth Revis -
Not having my father around has made me a better person.
Bradley Wiggins