Quotes About Father

Part of the Father's joy is in developing you and then watching you be strong and make great, very real choices. He enjoys seeing what his nature produces in you and what you create with it.

So many gifts her father gave her, so she should not be surprised they continued to be given, even in the moment of his dying. ...The gifts of patience, perspective, and detachment. The gifts of silence, irrelevance, and joy.

The more she thinks about the sort of maroonish light in his room those nights, and the light of the candel flickering, she knows that the colour of that room is how they all felt, and that colour is not just a representation of the world, but of the feelings in a room, and the meaningfulness of a room in time, because in that colour, her father died. She had never seen that colour before. It was the colour of a father dying.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.

I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?" "Lydia," he said. "I apologize.

My dad's idea of a good time is to go to Sears and walk around.

I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?

Your passion dwindling out isn't Father's fault either. You can't blame that on Him. He has you in Merchant for a reason. You may not see it yet. But there is purpose. Father always has a purpose.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

One of the things my dad and I got to bond over was going to the San Antonio Spurs games when Gervin was there, James Silas... I can't remember the rest of the guys' names, but it was a fun time.

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.