Father Quotes

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.

My father was all brain and little heart.

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.