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Quotes About Father

OJ says our father lives somewhere between the self-satisfaction that his success has made us soft and disgust that we are unacquainted with the brutal intensity of a world that he has effectively tamed for us.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
I've always felt weird about coming to Nigeria. Everything is always so overwhelming and aggressive from the moment we step out of the airport and into a country that my father loves so deeply he had to run away from it. But I've never had a choice. No one has ever asked me. Each summer, my father's momentum dragged us all home.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
My father and I look up and then at each other. I can feel my heart separate from the rest of my body. I want to hand it to frothing old man in front of me and say, take it. It's yours, because it has always been yours, if not for your sperm, your food, and the school fees that you pay on my behalf, then who and where would I be? Nothing. I am because you are. I say nothing. Each word I search for flies from my brain before I can send it off my tongue.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
his father lying on the bare floor in anguish. The King evidently had been struck down with some great sorrow. His face
~ V?lm?ki
Father, everybody has mugs these days. It's not a sign of debauchery and disrepute to drink tea from a mug.
~ Val McDermid
There wasn't much of that watch left to save, but he put a couple of the bigger pieces in his pocket. "It was my dad's," he said, his eyes getting puffy and red. "My dad was a famous runner.
~ Unknown
It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
~ Venus Williams
I'm always on the court with my dad.
~ Venus Williams
My father wore the pants in the family–at least, after the court order.
~ Unknown
Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.
~ Vernor Vinge
One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.
~ Victor Borge
My father once told me love is magic, sir.
~ Victoria Alexander
Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
~ Jacques Prévert
My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
~ Tiger Woods
The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.
~ George Best
Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology later - that was his famous line. I kind of feel like that's in my DNA.
~ Jerry Falwell, Jr.
My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.
~ Jessica Simpson
Thank you Dad... for listening and caring, for giving and sharing, but, especially, for just being you! Happy Birthday to you
~ John Walter Bratton
What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.
~ Micky Dolenz
As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car business, an automobile executive.
~ Mitt Romney
Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business ?
~ Bible
Whenever we went on a trip, picnic, or business trip, I was always with my dad, and I would just always be in contact with cosmonauts, and I thought it would be always normal to be with them.
~ Unknown
American pop group N'SYNC's. I listened to it endlessly in my dad's car. This also made me wanna be a singer.
~ Seungri