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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. Votes: 4
Jim ValvanoI cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Votes: 4
Sigmund FreudMy father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet. Votes: 2
Rodney DangerfieldI am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Votes: 2
Alexander the GreatThe most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Votes: 2
Theodore HesburghMy father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Votes: 2
Clarence Budington KellandIt is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. Votes: 2
Pope John XXIIII am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Votes: 2
Jesus ChristWhen a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareNothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children. Votes: 2
Bill CosbyA father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. Votes: 2
Frank A. ClarkAll the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. Votes: 2
George EliotMy father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next Votes: 0
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/search_results.html#AFkh8uD9L4AiZ6mt.99My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father.
Selina Hastings, Countess of HuntingdonMy father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.
Mikhail KhodorkovskyMy father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.
Elizabeth McCrackenI never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps.
Zbigniew BrzezinskiMy father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
Honeysuckle Weeks. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
Marilynne RobinsonCall no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Matthew McConaugheyA magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.
Napoleon BonaparteMy father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife" She married a house?
Sherrilyn KenyonA son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.
Simon SoloveychikMy father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
William Butler YeatsHe will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.
Beyonce KnowlesI never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.
Christina SteadO help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.
Emmeline B. WellsTo distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.
Kelley ArmstrongFather, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.
Aiden Wilson TozerWhat is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler
Arthur KoestlerEvery father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.
Charles KetteringAs a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.
Graydon CarterMy father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
Haile GebrselassieGod has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.
Harriet Beecher StoweMerciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.
Joaquin MillerI could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.
John Henrik ClarkeIf I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,
Jorge Luis BorgesI once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'
Marianne FaithfullFather, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.
Alistair BeggI love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
Barbara Brown TaylorTemples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father.
David E. SorensenAll you have to do is trust your Heavenly Father. Trust Him enough to follow His plan.
Dieter F. UchtdorfMy father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money.
Haile GebrselassieMy father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.
Kieran HebdenWe best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them.
Richard G. ScottYou will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.
Robert BreaultTo preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
Seneca the YoungerMy father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
Sherman AlexieIt's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].
Stephanie McMahonWhat thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?
William ShakespeareMy old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
Abraham LincolnNothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.
Alex PettyferOnce the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.
Barbara KingsolverFather sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.
Dorothy Canfield FisherOur lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.
Eugene O'Neill. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.
Frank PittmanIf my father is walking around going, 'Mmm, pussy,' he's thinking about eating the cat.
Greg BehrendtThe Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.
L. Ron HubbardA mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.
Leah Ward SearsFrom my father's side I got the strength, the mental toughness, the heart, the courage.
Mariano RiveraThe handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.
Michael ChabonI come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.
Rodney DangerfieldPrayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.
Samuel ChadwickSadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell.
Steve CooganI always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
Tamara MellonA father may turn his back on his child, ⦠. but a mother's love endures through all.
Washington IrvingOld times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.
Amor TowlesMy father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.
Anne Morrow LindberghMany a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
Don MarquisBy profession I am a Soldier & take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father.
Douglas MacArthurMy father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
George KennedyWhen Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.
Gladys TaberAndy Kaufman's mom wanted a girl, his father wanted a boy, and they were both satisfied!
Jerry LawlerIf you have a sorrow that you cannot tell to anyone, you can go to our Father in Heaven.
Johanna SpyriWe go to the temple to make covenants with Heavenly Father. We return home to keep them.
Linda K. BurtonIn the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.
Pope FrancisMy father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
Richard LeakeyThe sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family.
Steve FowlerI try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.
Suzanne CollinsGive up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
Swami VivekanandaNo guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
Van MorrisonPray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
Oswald ChambersWho ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Alexander PopeLiberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.
Camille PagliaBy the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Charles WadsworthMy father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.
Corrie Ten BoomWe don't have to be perfect to experience the blessings and gifts of our Heavenly Father.
Dieter F. UchtdorfIn joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
George MacDonaldHer lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.
George R. R. MartinMy father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.
Mario Van PeeblesI got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.
Missy ElliotIn England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!
Spike MilliganMy father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.
Terrence HowardZounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.
William ShakespeareI wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.
Bruce SpringsteenMy real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.
Cary ElwesPeace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.
Charles LindberghMy father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.
Charlotte GainsbourgPicasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint.
Francis BaconI was very fortunate to have had a mother and father who loved me in spite of my failings.
George W. BushAl Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.
Jehane NoujaimMy father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong.
Jorge PosadaYou know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
Katey SagalMy father had no sons, so I became queen. The only thing I had to do was perform the role.
Margrethe II of DenmarkMy mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.
Rufus WainwrightMy father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep
Thom YorkeThe only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
Zinedine ZidaneWatch over me, Father, so that everything I do may be with the intention of pleasing Jesus.
Bernadette SoubirousA boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.
Chinua AchebeMy father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
Darrell IssaFather, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin⦠I poked a badger with a spoon.
Eddie Izzard... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.
Eunice Kennedy ShriverFather sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours.â "Whose arguments should I use?
Franny BillingsleyPaternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam.
Nelson PiquetMy father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.
Nicolas CageIt is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.
Richard L. EvansEven evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.
Robin WilliamsMy father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
Anne LamottMy mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
Beverly ClearySometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.
Brandon SandersonMy father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
Flann O'BrienI was very dawn to people I loved, to my family, to my father, to my sister, to my brothers.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.
James Earl JonesI was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.
Jane FondaDon't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
Jeannette WallsMy father said I was perfectly suited for Washington because I've always worked around nuts.
Leon PanettaI'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.
Nat HentoffI should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
Neko CaseMy father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.
Paul LaffoleyThe Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father's tenderness and love towards each of us.
Pope FrancisHoly mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus
Rick RiordanA father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.
Rick WarrenMy father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.
Rodney DangerfieldMy mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.
Sergio LeoneI hated farm work. I always got stuck with the jobs my father and brother didn't want to do.
Travis HafnerI remember my father saying that you're about to awaken when you dream that you're dreaming.
Willard HuyckI've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).
Barry BondsFriend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
Charles LambOur earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.
Dallin H. OaksMy father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
Ernest HemingwayRight is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
Frederick DouglassMy father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.
Giovanna CauYou know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.
Goodman AceMy father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.
Indira GandhiMy father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions.It's really cool.
Lewis Black