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Quotes About Father

I was lucky enough to be raised not only by a really talented man but a really good father.
~ Catherine Reitman
Ritesh Deshmukh is rock star. He has a lovely family. He works so hard, and he's a great actor. He's funny, friendly, doesn't have an ego, and is so nice to everyone. He's a fine professional, a good husband, and a good father. That's a rock star for me.
~ Nargis Fakhri
When my body, my energy is low, it's hard for me to be a good husband, hard for me to be a good father... hard for me to be a good artist.
~ Trip Lee
I'm a very good husband. And a very good father.
~ Engelbert Humperdinck
He was a huge football man - he loved football. He was a good parent, a great father, and brilliant with me.
~ Chris Coleman
My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.
~ Maria Semple
While I have always had a good relationship with my father, much of the time it has been a very limited relationship until I was older. So you can't really give him credit or blame for how I turned out.
~ Christie Hefner
My parents didn't have a good relationship, my father was a cheater.
~ Angelina Pivarnick
I'm a father; I'm a friend. I think I've got the biggest heart in the world. A lot of times, that's not a good thing. It's a gift and a curse.
~ Allen Iverson
My dad has an incredible passion for living life, and he's really, really funny, so he definitely encourages me to enjoy all aspects of life. He's very proud of me and definitely encourages my career path, and we have a good time talking about work.
~ Spencer Grammer
Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
~ Frederick Buechner
The sadness was I'd lost a father I had never fully found. It's like a tune ends before you've heard it out. Your whole life through you search to catch the strain, and seek the face you've lost in strangers' faces.
~ Frederick Buechner
The sadness was I'd lost a father I had never fully found. It's like a tune that ends before you've heard it out. Your whole life through you search to catch the strain, and seek the face you've lost in strangers' faces.
~ Frederick Buechner
Your father lies beneath a stone,' old Aedwen mumbles, dozing at her wheel, and Godric thinks how it's a stone as well they're all beneath. The stone is need and hurt and gall and tongue-tied longing, for that's the stone that kinship always bears, yet the loss of it would press more grievous still.
~ Frederick Buechner
Without any appeal to books, to laws, or to authorities of any kind, it was enough to accept God as a father, to regard slavery as a crime. I
~ Frederick Douglass
There is not, beneath the sky, an enemy to filial affection so destructive as slavery. It had made my brothers and sisters strangers to me; it converted the mother that bore me, into a myth; it shrouded my father in mystery, and left me without an intelligible beginning in the world.
~ Frederick Douglass
We loved our father for the poet he'd become.
~ Frederick Reiken
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What the father has hidden comes out in the son, and often have I found the son to be a father's revealed secret.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
what was silent in the father speaks in the son
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Accordingly, I do not believe that an impulse to knowledge is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There, in a place of peace in the lonely abandonment of a cold windswept cave; there, under the floor of the world, He Who is born without a mother in heaven, is born without a father on earth.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
The vision of social amelioration without spiritual regeneration has constituted a temptation to which many important men in history have succumbed completely. But to Him, this would not be adequate service of the Father; there are deeper needs in man than crushed wheat; and there are greater joys than the full stomach.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez