Quotes About Father

I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.

What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.

In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.

We go to the temple to make covenants with Heavenly Father. We return home to keep them.

Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.

I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.

My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

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.

My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.

My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals.