Father Quotes - Page 11

• A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Boyfriend, Dad, Son

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• My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.

  Brian Roberts

  Mistake, Names, Mentor

  Source: usatoday30.usatoday.com

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• Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Husband, Responsibility, Interest In Life

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

  Desmond Morris

  Faith, Mother, Children

  Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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• Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Son, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Afghans excel at fighting Afghans. This is what Afghans do, even when they are not being invaded by foreign powers. They fight each other, tribe against tribe, brother against brother, half-brother against half-brother, cousin against cousin, uncle against nephew, father against son.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

  Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.115, St. Martin's Press

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• There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.

  Kevin Costner

  Mother, Children, Opportunity

  "Kevin Costner Talks MCFARLAND, USA, What Makes a Memorable Sports Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2015.

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• Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. Its sad that childrens open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.

  Clyde Edgerton

  Fun, Play, Fading

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• My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Sweet, Pride

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

  Deion Sanders

  Sports, Care, Want

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• My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

  Paul Rudd

  Years, Parent, Passed Away

  "Everybody Loves Rudd" by Rachel Combe, www.elle.com. August 12, 2011.

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• Dad, because you are my father it's been easy to believe in God.

  John Walter Bratton

  Dad, Believe, Easy

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• Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspirational, God, Prayer

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.136, Harmony

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• Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.

  Laozi

  Mother, Heart, Ambition

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• Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Squirrels, Eagles, Ducks

  Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Standing Out: Being Real in an Unreal World”, Multnomah

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• There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mother, Names, Leader

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• The past is the father of the present.

  Agatha Christie

  Past

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Hallowe'en party”, Pocket

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• People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all -- we were wet.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Bullying, School

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

  Saul Williams

  Mother, Children, Sacrifice

  Saul Williams (2012). “She”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Salesman

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• My father told me, never have partners.

  Howard Hughes

  Partners

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

  John F. Kennedy

  Brother, Dad, Government

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The incarnation of God is a necessity of human nature. If we reap and truly have a Father, we must be able to clasp His feet in our penitence, and to lean on His breast in our weary sorrowfulness.

  Charles Deems

  Feet, Able, Human Nature

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• Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

  Francis Bacon

  Peace, War, Son

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.145

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• A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.

  John Locke

  Growing Up, Son, Men

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 95), 1693.

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