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Quotes About Father

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
~ James Nasmyth
Can't you see the Creator of the universe, who understands every secret, every mystery, sitting patiently and listening to a four-year-old talk to Him? That's a beautiful image of a father.
~ James Dobson
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
~ John P. Marquand
The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.
~ Muhammad
My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.
~ Jared Kushner
Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth.
~ Barack Obama
My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
~ Jacky Ickx
I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role, But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old.
~ Big Daddy Kane
All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.
~ LL Cool J
It was my father who taught me to value myself.
~ Dawn French
Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
~ Beatrix Potter
My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
~ Roald Dahl
I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.
~ David Beckham
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
~ Hedy Lamarr
Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.
~ Marie Antoinette
I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.
~ Molly Ringwald
Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
~ Christine Keeler
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
~ Stephen Greenblatt
My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.
~ Deana Carter
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
~ Zach Braff
The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.
~ John Owen
'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
~ Jonathan Swift
My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
~ A. A. Gill