father quotes

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

Except for the title ‚father,‘ there is no title, including ‚vice president,‘ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‚Mad Men‘ episode.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

It’s disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There’s no bravado to any of it; it’s just a disgusting little trick.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.