Quotes of: Father-figure Keyword

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Jim Valvano

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

Chief Joseph

I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'

Joss Whedon

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.

Duane Chapman

Chris MacNeil: Is it over? Father Damien Karras: No Chris MacNeil: Is she going to die? Father Damien Karras: No!

The Exorcist

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.

DMX

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

Judy Biggert

I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Inigo Montoya: My father was slaughtered by a six-fingered man. He was a great swordmaker, my father. When the six-fingered man appeared and requested a special sword, my father took the job. He slaved a year before it was done. [Shows the Man in Bla...

The Princess Bride

There's no advice like father's -- even if you don't take it.

American

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

English

You cannot satisfy the whole world and your father.

French

Son: Father, you are my father. You sired me. I have sired no one because I left the primordial. I left you, I studied, I suffered, and my visions were pure. Before me, my father, new horizons were opened. Father: Yes, I am your father. I sired you a...

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

Father Cavanaugh: [in church] Taking your appeal to a higher authority? Rudy: I'm desperate. If I don't get in next semester, it's over. Notre Dame doesn't accept senior transfers. Father Cavanaugh: Well, you've done a hell of a job kid, chasing down...

Rudy

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Fathe...

The Hiding Place

Good fathers, and by that I mean real fathers who are there, have the ability to change almost every social problem we now find ourselves facing. I’d be assumptive enough to say that there isn’t a single type of crime or a single problem so big t...

Single Dad Laughing

'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the t...

Athol Fugard

Heavenly Father, let there be light in every dark corner.

Beautiful Quotes

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son