Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

Postponement: The father of failure.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

Eike Batista

What I learned from my father is to think big.

Egon Schiele

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

Lisa Presley

Anything my father did for me or gave me was done out of love. I'm sure I had moments when I was a snot. But my mom was there to smack me back to the other side.

Justin Hartley

Any father can relate to feeling like a superhero when you put a Band-Aid on your kid.

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.

The narrative was originally from four points of view, including a mother, father and baby, and the language was very, well, French. Very poetic.

a freak in my neighborhood. My father wasn't interested in sports.

a friend, counselor, father figure, and a true gentleman.

After I got news of the stampede, my wife and I could not sleep throughout of the night. We tried till 1 a.m. to talk to my father but could not get through.

Flintoff, Trescothick, Vaughan, Bell, Giles, Hoggard, Harmison and Simon Jones all see me as a father figure.

Father Grace has shown up for 'Pray for Snow' parties.

Save me, O My Father God. I am worthless and without virtue; all virtues are Yours.

Michael McCaul

As the father of five, I wake up every morning thanking God for the health and happiness of my children. Not all parents are as fortunate.

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Robert Burton

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore

Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?

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

And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

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

Isabella Rossellini

They were hurt. To be ridiculed in the newspapers. My father was such an intellectual and moral person, to be reduced to a sexy playboy, it was humiliating.

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.

Richard Grieco

It's just a wonderful feeling to be a father and to have a kid.

It wasn't my father, ... My father was a good guy. I feel I need to fix this.

Harry Hill

My dad used to say 'Always fight fire with fire,' which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade.

Hans Christian Andersen

At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.

Greta Scacchi

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

Gordon Bell

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

Gordon Cooper

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

Gordon Getty

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.