Quotes of: Father Keyword

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

Paula Danziger

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

Patti Smith

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

Paul Tsongas

All things acceptable to God the Father must come from God the Son, whether us or our works.

paul viggiono

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

Robert Byrd

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

Roy Blount, Jr.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

Richard Ernst

My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

Sidney Poitier

I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

Tina Ambani

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

Tori Amos

I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF in India.

Terry Jones

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

Tamara Mellon

It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.

Thomas S. Monson

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

Tatum O'Neal

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

Ken Venturi

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

Louise Fletcher

I don't feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can.

Lykke Li

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Lewis Mumford

Engage in no pursuit in which you cannot look up unto God, and say, 'Bless me in this, my Father!

Legh Richmond

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

Leverett Saltonstall