Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

A Wild Sheep Chase

Apostles go into new territory and establish God’s kingdom.

Walking in the Father's Riches: The Prosperity of Sonship

Obeying a prophetic call to action brings positive benefits.

Walking in the Father's Riches: The Prosperity of Sonship

I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.' And I want them to belong to a modern family, and live a path of happiness and calm.

Ricky Martin

I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful leader.

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

Pope Benedict XVI

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

Stephen Sondheim

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

King George V

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

Larry Elder

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

Lincoln Steffens

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

Bo Jackson

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

Harlan Coben

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

David Charvet

My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.

Keri Hilson

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

Olivier Martinez

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

Pete Seeger

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Tony Visconti

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

Anthony Hopkins

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Joel Osteen

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Samuel Butler

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

William Penn