Quotes about father
father men my-best-friend
I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man. William Ruckelshaus
father people firsts
The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people. William Robertson Smith
father understanding authority
My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding. William Maxwell
father book men
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else. Vincente Minnelli
father pirate way
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
father singing
The singing was something I got from my father. Woody Herman
fathers-day daughter wall
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. Woody Harrelson
father gentleman use
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. Woodrow Wilson
father land pieces
My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went. Woody Allen
fathers-day enthusiasm incompetence
I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.
father believe angel
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes. William Winwood Reade
fathers-day dad father-son
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. William Wordsworth
father years two
Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us. William Saroyan
father writing symphony
People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music. William Shatner
father effort presidential
The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice? William McKinley
father long people
Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps
fathers-day jobs school
During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and said, 'As long as you're in this house, being president is my second most important job'. William J. Clinton
father thinking president
When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground.
father struggle winning
Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.
father light people
In speaking powerfully and eloquently for mercy and reconciliation to people divided by old hatreds and persecuted by abuse of power, the Holy Father was a beacon of light not just for Catholics, but for all people.
father today way
I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives. Will Ferrell
father forgive-me heaven
You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven. Sarah Silverman
father america giving
There is nothing more important in my life than my relationship with God and my faith. I have been so driven to my knees to pray for His guidance, for His wisdom, for His grace and for His Strength. I'm never going to tell anybody else how to live, I'm never going to preach to anybody else and tell them you must do that. But I sure would like to see more Americans give it a try and seek the guidance that our Founding Fathers sought and were able to [then] craft documents that allowed America to become the greatest, strongest, healthiest, most prosperous nation on earth. Sarah Palin
father trying saws
Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.
father adults trouble
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult. Sarah Addison Allen
father son boys
It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father. Sara Gilbert
father giving mentor
Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life. Samuel Smiles
father white hands
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary and deliberate revisions and additions of our own, more or less directly occasioned by the continuing stimulation of our sense organs. It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones. Willard Van Orman Quine
father white black
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.
father names netherlands
I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands. Willem Dafoe
father holiday pride
I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday. Wilbur Smith
father years safari
I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.
father hero boys
Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.