Quotes About Father

I was always certain of your father's love, because when he fell for me I was looking less attractive than a water buffalo

Abraham as a boy crawled around the synagogue bum-in-air with his nose pressed against antique Chinese blue. He never told his mother that his father had reappeared in ceramic form on the synagogue floor a year after he decamped, in a little blue rowing-boat with blue-skinned foreign-looking types by his side, heading off towards an equally blue horizon.

My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.

I still have a video of my father, which I watch before every game I play for Brazil. It gives me strength, makes me determined.

The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

I have an excellent father, his strength is making me stronger.

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

Monsieur Morcerf," said Danglars, pale with anger and fear, "if I find a mad dog in my path I kill it and, far from feeling guilty about it, I feel that I have rendered a service to society. If you are mad and try to bite me, I warn you that I will kill you without pity. Is it my fault that your father is dishonored?

What, no wine? said Dantes, turning pale, and looking alternately at the hollow cheeks of the old man and the empty cupboards. What, no wine? Have you wanted money, father?

Ti inganni mio signore, io non amavo mio padre come amo te; il mio amore per te è un altro amore: mio padre è morto e io non sono morta, mentre se tu morissi io pure morirei.

He was the friend of the king, who honored highly, as everyone knows, the memory of his father, Henry IV.

Sono solo al mondo». «Allora amerete me. Se siete giovane, sarò vostro compare. Se siete vecchio, sarò vostro figlio. Ho un padre che dovrebbe avere settant'anni, se è ancora in vita. Amavo solo lui e una fanciulla di nome Mercédès. Mio padre non mi ha dimenticato, ne sono sicuro. Ma lei, Iddio solo sa se mi pensa ancora. Amerò voi come amavo mio padre».

the faults of a father cannot revert upon his children.

The name of father is sacred in two senses; he should be reverenced as the author of our being and as a master whom we ought to obey.

A father's sufferings may affect great changes in the mind of a son.

The faults of a father cannot revert upon his children. Few have passed through this revolutionary period, into which we were born, without some stain of infamy or blood.

I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.

My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures.

The fields were rifle with clouds of Queen Anne's lace, which would make a billowy wreath. Her father had always said there people who saw Queen Anne's lace as a weed, and those who considered it a flower, and he belonged to the latter group. If you think it's beautiful it is, he had told her.