Father Quotes

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

Lactantius
- Men
- Beginning
- Greatness
My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.

Dambisa Moyo

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.

John Adams
- Father
They will accuse me of stealing from my father. They already stand in baited judgement, waiting for my first move, waiting to dump their loads of garbage on me.

Jeff Buckley
- Father
- Waiting
The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
- Country
- Family
- Mother
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Sam Ewing
- Father
- Career
- Marriage
My father was very sick around the time I was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't live. He did recover, but I don't remember him as very active. I do remember lots of schtick around the dinner table. Generally, he and my brothers and I were all laughing at the same thing my mother did not find funny, whatever that was.

Albert Brooks
- Time
- Live
- Remember
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

Ralph Nader
- Political
- Dad
- Party