Quotes About Fathers

...as one reads more and more and more you get more fathers in your hierarchy of fathers. And then, after summoning twenty or thirty fathers, perhaps you are born, or perhaps you are not born.

Why don't dads know anything? Does he not have eyes and ears?

If our liberty and republican form of government, procured for us by our revolutionary fathers, are worth the blood and treasure at which they were obtained, it is surely our duty to protect and defend them.

beyond all the obvious ways of testing the truth of Orthodox doctrine – conformity with the sacred Scriptures, with the witness of the Holy Fathers, with the creeds, with the dogmas proclaimed at the Œcumenical Councils of the Church – there is another, more immediate test: Does what we believe find its counterpart in the way we pray in the divine liturgy?

My girls…" His voice faded away. He searched Elena's eyes, then reached for her hand. His grip was weak but his words came out strong. "Thank God for my amazing girls!

we do not understand history, are we not bound to repeat the mistakes our fathers made?" "Some would say we will make those mistakes in any case," I answered, "for the same passions that motivated our fathers motivate us, and young people

Then we cried out to the LORD God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice. – Deuteronomy 26:7

apparently sees some value in the antiquity of the doctrine of ... This means absolutely nothing to me, for whom the Scriptures alone are my sole doctrinal authority, beyond the fact that this is just one more error of the ancient fathers. I could fill pages documenting other errors that the ancient fathers held and espoused. Response to The Classic Arminian View of Election, page 135

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

They had fought to keep the country together as George Washington and the Founding Fathers meant it to be.

Marvin Gaye Music superstar Marvin Gaye was shot to death by his father. In court the father said, "This is probably the worst thing I've ever done." Probably??????

We think fathers are supposed to be these perfect role models – and maybe they should be, but really their just men. I think most daughters lose sight of that fact and then when their dad's fall short of the 'God' status they get hurt. They're men. We need to keep it in perspective and not set our standards so high. Face it, most of them should have to apply for a license just to be able to procreate. Seriously

there just could not be that many incestuous fathers and uncles walking the streets of Vienna.

If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.

Barrow, where I live, is a traditional town that still has some heavy industry, but the jobs are more sedentary than in our fathers' day.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

I knew I wanted to work in television because some friends of mine, when I went to high school - their fathers worked for, as a matter of fact, for NBC Sports at the time.

Divorce is something I think that children feel particularly hard and what's sad about a lot of divorces, and certainly about my divorce, is that absent fathers who really want to play a part in their children's lives but don't live there, they have a pretty tough time.

One of the major demographic shares of people who watch 'Girls' are men in their fifties. Fathers watch it, maybe trying to figure out how to keep up with their 20-something daughters.