Quotes of: Father-figure Keyword

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Michael Gurian

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Robert Frost

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

Sidney Poitier

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

Aaron Klug

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

Adam Sandler

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.

Jolene Blalock

Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.

David Green

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.

Justin Welby

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

Chauncey Depew

Oh, my father, such a difficult man. His world turned on his axis. From "The Father Tamer" in BREATHE IN

Eileen Granfors

You can't experience the Father's embrace until you first embrace your earthly father's experience.

Bob Parr

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

George Herbert

I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete.

Joakim Noah

Adult Simba: You knew my father? Rafiki: Correction: I *know* your father.

The Lion King

My father was brought up in a theatrical background, just as I was, and his father instilled in him the need to do everything properly and take responsibility for money.

Sean Pertwee

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

Black Kettle

I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

A. R. Rahman

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

Danny Aiello

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

Anthony Kiedis

A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die.

Life

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

Ziggy Marley