Fathers Quotations | Page 3

We're really lucky we have John Wright playing the father, and he's wonderful.

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?

Most fathers do want to maintain their responsibilities, both financially and as parents. But their path is blocked by contact orders not worth the paper they are written on. If shared parenting were the norm, not the exception, much of the non-compliance problem would cease to exist.

You just ignore it. You know you're qualified. I know my father in my situation ... he's not going to hand me a job just because of who I am.

My biggest wish is to meet with ordinary and common people, to visit their families, that face current difficulties, to talk with fathers and mothers in the families, with veterans who experienced grief and happiness, to meet with youth who are making their first steps in life.

We are not thugs. It points to the problem at the MTA that is shared by the city fathers and the state fathers. ... We find it extremely regrettable.

Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.

We're all happy that he's been found, and the family's going to have a father and a husband again.

We'd wake up in the morning and there'd be a line of mothers, fathers, grandchildren waiting for us. We knew that we were there to save lives.

That was kind of tough because my father (Raymond) taught in the schools here. She was always talking to young people about education, always counseling young people to go to school, get an education. 'Education is your ticket to anything you want to do.' That's why she paid for so many kids to go to school.

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the 70s, Fathers Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Fathers Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

We used to have a phone in the store and the fathers would phone and we kids would run down and take messages down to the Jewish families,

We have a work to do just as important in its sphere as the Savior's work was in its sphere. Our fathers cannot be made perfect without us; we cannot be made perfect without them. They have done their work and now sleep. We are now called upon to do ours; which is to be the greatest work man ever performed on the earth.

There are fathers that aren't going to get the opportunity to stand up anywhere and talk about the fun they had with their kids on picnics.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

We want to make sure people are aware of the sacrifices that our fathers made and to keep that tradition alive.

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.

Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

Though guiltless, you must expiate your fathers' sins.

When my father testified at the trial, ... there was a full-page picture of him on the witness stand, pointing his finger at John Gilbert Graham.

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.

The most important thing in life..

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength.

He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.

Well being a manager is sort of like being a father. I was always held to be responsible because I was the oldest of five. No matter what happened in my family I was always in charge and always at fault. Being a manger is like being a father where your dad is the ultimate last word and disciplinarian.

Never love anything that can't love you back.

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

When we engraved the 442 names on the back of the medals - that's when the reality sinks in. Everybody in the whole plant had to be involved to check the names and match the medals with the cases. You see names of fathers and sons and brothers and the reality sinks in that basically whole families were wiped out trying to help people. But that's what we do - what we manufacture generally has a higher degree of meaning to those that receive it. It's not just any award.

I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.

When my kids were younger, I used to avoid them. I used to sit on the toilet 'til my legs fell asleep. You want to know why your father spends so long in the toilet? Because he's not sure he wants to be a father.

Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

Ultimately, they want a stable, a more effective relationship with their child. A lot of fathers don't know how to have that.

Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it.

Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.

Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really.

The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting on a bed of folded tissue, was the pair of his undershorts that somebody threw away six months ago (without asking Dad) because they had reached the stage where they were 3 percent undershorts and 97 percent holes. Dad misses those undershorts. They were his Faithful Undershorts Companion.

And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.

And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.

And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Black Males Left Behind. One reason for maintaining optimism is that so few serious attempts to help poor fathers have been made.

between those who would keep taxes higher on taxpayers to transfer the money to welfare recipients, and those of us who believe that after 16 years, it is actually time to have a bill dedicated to helping taxpayers and to giving mothers and fathers more take-home pay and resources to take care of their children.

Divorced fathers measure time by memories, not by the clock

Today's ruling by a federal judge who sits in the 9th Circuit is yet another assault on American principles. The Founding Fathers believed that our Creator gave us certain inalienable rights,

Even now, where you have single fathers raising their children too, not just single mothers.

At sundry times, and in diverse manners, God was pleased to speak to our fathers by the prophets, before he spoke to us in these last days by his Son.

I see them (residents) fishing. I see them with their fathers and grandfathers. It's the family things you want to look for.

The St. Paul city fathers at that time ventured to Dearborn, Michigan, to talk to Henry Ford, and offered this site as potential as a manufacturing facility with the benefit of the hydro power.

The shared experiences between parent and child are shifting. Instead of fathers teaching their sons how to play sports or use tools, now they've got video games.

The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every indivdual, in all her magnificent diversity.

The Steelers are a working class team and this is a working class town. We remember our fathers coming home from work dirty. We'd talk about the Steelers at the dinner table like they were part of the family. We relate with the team.

When you go into coaching, the ultimate goal is to make the kids grow into good human beings, fathers and husbands. But there is also the competition. Sometimes my competitiveness was greater than my kids'.

And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day? / And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

I've not been the kind of father than I should have been, nor the kind of husband, ... I don't know if I can correct that. I'm going to spend some time because they have been so wonderful.

I've not been the kind of father that I should have been, and the kind of husband,

They all have famous fathers and nobody knows my dad. He's just a normal guy.

It was the true father of all the variety shows.

What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else ... find themselves more affirmed by society? ... Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders.

We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.

Both of their fathers came from Bangladesh 40 years ago as unskilled, almost illiterate laborers. They went to work in the garment factories in the midlands. Later, they brought their wives over and put their children in school.

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Bob, the taxpayers thank you, ... A lot of families heretofore on welfare, as fathers and mothers with their children, thank you for your great leadership.

After all, we've been saying for a generation that fathers aren't really necessary. Why is it so shocking that some men are starting to believe it?

Seeing fathers-in-law, all those kinsmen, and other dear ones standing in the ranks of the two armies, / Arjuna was overcome with great compassion and sorrowfully said: O Krishna, seeing my kinsmen standing with a desire to fight, / My limbs fail and my mouth becomes dry. My body quivers and my hairs stand on end.

One girl's father offered to take the pictures and we all worked together to come up with the themes for each photograph. We had an initial donation by one girl's brother to cover all the production costs and now we have calendars ready for sale.

Despite the prayer vigils, the special services, and the prayers of many mothers and fathers, the ranks of the ruthless and the lawless continue to swell,

That picture that they showed with the father, that is not Elian. That hair is not Elian's.

As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers; / From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.

They said: O Shu'aib! does your prayer enjoin you that we should forsake what our fathers worshipped or that we should not do what we please with regard to our property? Forsooth you are the forbearing, the right-directing one.

They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? / Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

People don't know what I'm going through, and the sad part is there are other fathers just like me. I'm a father, but a court has said that someone else should raise my kids. I'm going to walk to Montgomery and hopefully talk to Gov. Bob Riley and ask him for help. This is the only way I thought I could get someone to listen.

Fathers and Mothers! Honor your children and love them.

Father Vincent jumped last year and he talked about it as one of those shocking things to do. It has a dangerous feel to it that helps you examine your life, like the start of the new year does, and make sure you're living a life worth living and doing all you can with it.

Feinstein is dipping her toe into the very ugly, muddy waters of religious bigotry. America's Founding Fathers considered religious beliefs to be an asset, even essential to public officeholders. Sadly, Sen. Feinstein apparently believes the opposite of those wise men to whom we owe gratitude for our free and strong country.

First of all, I didn't want to do it. But my father is here (visiting from Puerto Rico), so I decided to do it for him, to win it for him.

The only thing I learned from him was about messing up, so I'll try to be a better father than he was, ... I didn't even play football when I lived with him. My mom got me into it.

This was an accident. Everyone has to live with it and accept it and not point fingers. If this is negligence on her part, then 80 percent of mothers and fathers in Richmond better take notice.

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

This Court finds that nowhere in the U.S. Constitution did the founding fathers state that it was permissible to lie in a court of law. This argument is simply without merit,

This is and has been the Fathers work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

This is entirely too young, and the city of New York should really hang their heads in shame. This is big government at its worst - this is government telling mothers and fathers that they know better than parents do.

In going forward, I really am doing much the same as my father did. He sort of had a grand scheme that wasn't too specific. Out projects were always innovative.

I never intended to confront my father, but it became inevitable, ... Ironically enough, it happened on Fathers Day.

If our father is our basis for God, and our fathers abandoned us, then what does that tell you about God?

I like human stories. I like stories about situations we can relate to. I like movies like 'Ordinary People' or 'Terms of Endearment.' Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, boyfriends, girlfriends. The stories to me that are worth telling are almost simple ones, but very relatable.

I'm focused. I learned from my father not to hesitate.

I'm like one of his fathers who couldn't be prouder of him. It's a long story, but at the bitter end his agents accused me of badmouthing him to the NBA people; because they had convinced him he was a lottery pick.

In species where fathers invest less than mothers in their offspring, females tend to be more selective in mate choice and males therefore invest more in courtship display. Our results with human subjects correlate with that expectation. More symmetrical men put on a better show, and women notice.

If you notice how the requirement for Constitution Day came about, it was a stipulation hidden in another bill. That's part of the Constitution controversy, ... The way the founding fathers crafted the passage of a bill, the president has to accept or reject all of it. That makes it very difficult.

If we are to give working mothers, fathers and their children an opportunity to live the American dream we must invest in their future.

If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.

No nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world, and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. ... Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. ... What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

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The new generation of fathers is interested in doing this, and fathers are taking more time to be with their children.

I want to speak directly to the kidnappers of my daughter Jill, who could be fathers like me.