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Quotes About Father

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
~ Matt Dillon
Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.
~ Elias Hicks
No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
~ Van Morrison
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
~ Al Franken
I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.
~ William Shakespeare
Maria didn't fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers.
~ Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
~ Ada Yonath
A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?
~ Stephen Colbert, I Am America
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
A father is a man who fails every day.
~ Michael Chabon
My father did not teach me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.
~ Clarence Kelland
It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince
~ Melanie Rawn
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
~ Frank Abagnale
In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
~ George MacDonald
Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
~ Jane Austen
My father helped you with that. . that thing you do?" "Yes. Your father helped me with that peacemaking thing I do that keeps you happily killing for a living.
~ G.A. Aiken, Supernatural
My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
~ Dylan Walsh
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
~ Quintus Ennius
Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
~ Paul Lynde
I was born in the house my father built.
~ Richard M. Nixon
You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.
~ Pierce Brosnan
The heavenly Father is wise in heart.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes.
~ Alia Bhatt