Fathers Quotations | Page 2

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.

Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families.

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

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her ... I think it's the best thing going, parenthood.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

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.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

When I started out, nearly every architect I knew was working in public practice; that's where the radical thinking was done. But, there's always a danger of looking back as our fathers did and saying, 'Things were better then.'

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perform the saving ordinances in the temple for them. This will forge a continuous chain between us and our forefathers eventually all the way back to Father Adam and Mother Eve.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look after him if my mother had died. It's just that sort of commitment. That's just the way my family is.

I grew up with Wayne's father. We played against each other on the playground.

My father took me to the first regular season game they ever played, when John Gilliam ran the opening kickoff back, ... So I've always had a special place in my heart for the franchise. ... I know how much they mean to that community.

My father tried to raise me like his father raised him.

My father used to tell me the game is not privileged to have you, you're privileged to have hockey,

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.

Of course, none of them was going to get shot at. None of them would have to answer to the mothers and fathers of dead soldiers and Marines.

My father was the 87th Latino to be in the major leagues, but he was the first one ... to be able to speak up and become an activist against prejudice, not only in baseball but also in society, and that took a lot to be able to do that.

My father worked for GE for 40 years,

My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system.... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.

My father never took me to a restaurant, we didn't have the social status or the money.

Post-natal depression is a public health concern for mothers, fathers and babies,

Plenty of gun opponents have pointed out the obvious: that the Founding Fathers could never have envisioned the kinds of 'arms' that exist today - Washington, Jefferson, and the rest had never even seen a bullet. Musket balls for guns that required constant reloading were the 'arms' of the day.

Last year we had 55 teams, and we're on pace to break 60 teams this year. We have fathers bringing in their sons and daughters to fish. Some of the teams are coming from as far away as Indiana and Missouri.

mothers and fathers are sick and tired of seeing the values assaulted that they are trying to teach their children.

Mothers and fathers will have the certainty of knowing that whatever their background, high-quality early years education and childcare services will be available to support them and their children.

She extended those principles of the founding fathers in a way that applies to all of us,

Many of the founding fathers either traveled through or at some point stayed here in our city.

So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

Sean Penn is a left-wing guy, ... He's been that way, his father was that way, he's always going to be that way. He goes down to New Orleans with his boat, he rescues some people, and he does some good. The right kills him, and his wife curses at the right - it's all just a whole big charade. It doesn't really mean anything other than the fact that the guy did actually rescue some people.

She was released this morning, she's talked to her father and she's fine.

When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

Knowing those two individuals as fathers and individuals, I would think that if they could speak from beyond the grave, I'm not sure they would want another father to be taken from his child or his family.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? / For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

From near thy vicinity, from near thy distance (do I call), remain here, do not follow; do not follow the Fathers of yore! Firmly do I fasten thy life's breath.

For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

I felt like I lost a father figure. We spent so much time together that I really feel like I lost a parent. Mr. Stephens gave me so many opportunities, and being at the Masters just won't be the same without him being around.

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, / And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

He was like a second father to me,

He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, ... I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare you?' And he stormed out of the theater and I followed him and we fought and argued and hugged and he cried and we made up.

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

He was worried about what Father would say.

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

He (her father) figured out I'm not going to see anything on the inside and if I did, I could still turn on it. It seems like that's just what teams do because they figure you are weaker hitting the outside pitch.

The people who are setting the foundation are the mothers and fathers. I think we are just giving students recognition for the good habits that parents are instilling in them. We can't wake up 900 students and make sure they always go to school. That's up to parents.

He doesn't like jewelry. Never has. He's not flashy at all. So he just lets his father wear them instead.

Joe's a good player, but he's only a sophomore. His father used to teach at Okemos, so I had a feeling he'd have a big game for us.

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

Marriage matters to our society. Mothers and fathers both matter to children. Only a man and a woman have the ability to create children.

I request this release to be as soon as possible as my father is terminally ill and I wish to visit him one last time,

Please keep the Holy Father in your prayers,

Or have We given them a book before it so that they hold fast to it? / Nay! they say: We found our fathers on a course, and surely we are guided by their footsteps.

Paul never told me anything about why he wrote it -- he never mentioned his father and he never mentioned my father, ... He never put me in a position in which I would feel a lot of external pressure other than wanting my reaction to the script. That's the way I would do it. That's the way I know a real professional would do it. That's the proper to do it.

I say now and have often said before, Fathers of the Senate, that a well-disposed and helpful prince, to whom you have given such great and unrestrained power, ought to be the servant of the Senate, often of the citizens as a whole, and sometimes even of individuals.

Jamestown with her wild train she as freely frequented, as her fathers habitation; and during the time of two or three years, she next under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine and utter confusion; which if in those times, had once been dissolved, Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival to this day.

I'm still focusing on football presently, but my real goals are to get this institution back to where Father (Hugh) Sherlock (the founder of Boys' Town) would have wanted it.

It is fitting and proper that we continue to honor our town fathers such as Briscoe, and it would be worthwhile if our current educators talked to their students about the man whose name currently adorns their place of learning,

John is much more than a football legend, he's an American icon, ... He is the only sports television talent who resonates across all ages - kids grow up today playing his video game and watching him on TV, as their fathers grew up watching him on NFL sidelines every Sunday.

Our argument is that fathers should have the same right,

Our founding fathers referred to eminent domain as 'despotic power;' and that was when property was being seized for the government's use. There need to be some serious changes.

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.

Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their partys base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.

I was there and Governor Riley walked by and then a little later sent for me. He spent about 10 minutes with me, listened and said he would look into it. I had no idea that I would actually get to see him. But at least the run accomplished its mission. At least people are aware of the problem that fathers face.

It is a Christian heresy, and church fathers spent years dealing with this stuff.

I think that people have short memories, and I think that they believe that our forbearers in the past were these Founding Fathers who were ideal and who were - would never have stooped to dirty tricks.

Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

You know, everyone likes to talk about when they played for my father. And it's nice to hear that. My dad was a rock. He held our family together. He was unbelievable as a father and a coach. He did it all.

The problem is this is so politically incorrect. The public is still dealing with the pre-Roe ethic when it comes to men, that if a man fathers a child, he should accept responsibility.

Those of us who care are reaching out to get these young fathers involved. My parents' involvement in my upbringing drove me to be involved in my children's lives. It trickles down to the next generation.

I would like his father to come and pick him up. Because I know he's safe and I know that I put him in good hands. I will not give this little boy to anybody.