I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of… Dad.

My father taught that the only helping hand you’re ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

I tell everyone in the world that I have always been the best father I could be and that I was the worst husband. Wooo!

Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.

Children are very quick observers; very quick in seeing through some kinds of hypocrisy, very quick in finding out what you really think and feel, very quick in adopting all your ways and opinions. You will often discover that, as the father is, so is the son.

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

My father always dressed nice, and he always wore shades and a hat. Plus he always wore shined shoes. He taught me: “Always get there before you get there.” That means always dress nice. Even if you’re not the most handsome man in the world, you must have handsome characteristics, such as a handsome personality and attitude.

Father’s Day just be Mother’s Day the sequel.

My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.

I’ll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father

I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Discontent,” Father Maturin said, enunciating the word with a strange vigor and looking straight at Elizabeth, “may be God’s catapult, His way of saying: ‘Go and try yourself now.

But the son whips out a Bayer aspirin, the father rises to his feet, embraces the son, and Technicolor is restored to their lives.

To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might and endless majesty

Compared with White Fang, they were frail and flabby, and clutched life without any strength in their grip. White Fang had come straight from the Wild, where the weak perish early and shelter is vouchsafed to none. In neither his father nor his mother was there any weakness, nor in the generations before them.

When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but my father wouldn’t satisfy my curiosity. He told only one story about the orphanage, and that was of sneaking out and buying candy, which he sold to other orphans. He said he had a pretty good business going – till he was busted! I guess he told that anecdote because he was the hero of it and I suspect he was rarely the hero as a child, more often the victim. There’s a photo of the actual orphanage on my website, and you can see it’s a forbidding looking place.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it’s loosely based on my father’s childhood in an orphanage.

Daughter, we didn’t need your note – or a prince’s visit – to tell us you’d done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander. Father.

Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I’m confessing another fault: pride. I don’t want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned.

People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.

My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

‘Motorcycle Diaries’ had the best costumes – that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It’s all for the kids.

It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul

Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident – in the most audacious way – in His Fatherly goodness

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

My father always said, ‘Do your best and piss on the rest.’ And I think there’s a lot of truth to that, because if you’ve done your best, there’s not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

My father was a very popular singer and stage actor during his time, in the 1950s. But he didn’t take any formal lessons in music, which was probably why he insisted I study music so I could get a proper base and build a strong career in it.

Cause We Really With The Beef Like Closeted Gay Fathers

Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He’s not flesh and blood, he’s aluminum alloy!” The doctor said gently, What I’m going to say will sound pretty wild. But you’re not the father of this strange looking child. You see, there still is some question about the child’s gender, but we think that its father is a microwave blender.

Anger is precious. A silverback uses anger to maintain order and warn his troops of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do. Here in my domain there is no one to protect.

I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn’t end up in her position.

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

I’m a father and I’m a husband and I care about what’s happening on our streets.

My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

I guess I’m like any other concerned father, except that nobody else’s son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.

I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.

When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls – and I didn’t have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me

My father … gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman

My father Rodger is your typical ‘funny without knowing it’ kinda guy. When he says something that creates shock or joy in a room, I love watching his confused face as he tries to work out what it is he did

Heavenly Father — take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband — Though to trust us — seem to us More respectful — We esteem Thy Esteem of us, so vast, So incomprehensible, We touch the fingertips of Faith To an option so precise — The vasty distance magnifies T’other side the gulf of thee — Tho’ the Gulf be not so wide — That would be easier to span — We are used to Wandering Somewhat — Yet with Thee A little further on —

Our heavenly Father measures and weighs every trial before He permits it to come upon the believer. He considers the circumstances and the strength of the one who is to stand under the proving and test of God, and He never permits the temptations to be greater than the capacity of resistance. If the soul is overborne, the person overpowered, this can never be charged to God, as failing to give strength or grace commensurate with the temptation. The strength is there if the soul will appropriate it.

Be a father first. Don’t put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.

When I win awards, I think of my father.

My father was always in good spirits, he loved football. It makes me a bit sad because if he could enjoy seeing me now, what I have achieved, that would be a highlight in his life. But I’m sure that he watches over me from above.

We deal with God – who is Love. He isn’t a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.

Some knowledge is too heavy…you cannot bear it…your Father will carry it until you are able.

It’s so much better, where possible, to try and forgive offenders and give them a second chance, just like my mother and father did so often with me as a child.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

One of the things I’ve always said is that if you’re given the ability to coach kids, then you’re really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

I am a substantial sinner. I have asked the Heavenly Father for His Grace.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

My father used to say, don’t raise your voice; improve your argument.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn’t make you want to jump into that business.

My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and righteous heart. In the name of my father, I will kill Mundus!

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

Our Father’s wagons rumble most heavily when they are bringing us the richest freight of the bullion of his grace.

I’ve always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I’ve always tried to follow my parents’ advice because these are people who want the best for me.

My father has been by my side since I was little. He takes care of things, my finances and my family.

My father always told me I like the ball more than I like playing soccer: since I was a young kid, I was always skilled with it, dribbling furniture around the house. That’s how I see football – fun and dynamic – and this goes beyond me; it’s a characteristic of Brazilian football.

Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of the Revolutionary fathers

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I used to work in a bank when I was younger, and my dad used to say, ‘Son, I used to carry a saw and cut down trees, and now you’re working in a bank.’ He was disappointed in that.

My biggest goal is for my father to think I was the best, and he thinks.

To the rest of the world the name of Henry VIII brought a shiver, and suggested an ogre whose nostrils breathed destruction and whose hand dealt scourgings and death; but to this boy the name brought only sensations of pleasure, the figure it invoked wore a countenance that was all gentleness and affection. He called to mind a long succession of loving passages between his father and himself, and dwelt fondly upon them, his unstinted tears attesting how deep and real was the grief that possessed his heart.

He has no traditions to bind him or guide him; and his impulse is to break away from the occupation his father has followed, and make a new way for himself.

What the insane Father required was blood and misery; he was indifferent as to who furnished it.

Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

My dear father, only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there

My son, O’Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, ‘OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,’ because we didn’t know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting

My father believed in me many times more than I believed in myself

My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children.

Just because you’re a man doesn’t mean that you can’t raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don’t give up no matter what they say.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own

Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child’s conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs.

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

My father’s love was always strong / My mother’s glamour lives on and on / Yet still inside, I felt alone / For reasons unknown to me.

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists – not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well

I don’t think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

I’m a fun father, but not a good father.

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to – as my father puts it – finally have a real job.

My father’s life is a testament to that basic American promise that no matter who you are or how you started out, if you work hard you can build a decent life for yourself and an even better life for your kids.

Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.

My father is strong in his legs, and I think I get that from him. I am stronger there than in my upper body, but that is what gives me a low centre of gravity. It makes it harder for opponents to get me off the ball.

Only thing I got to do is be a better father to my children! Everything else gone fall in place!

I want to be a superhero dad to where my kids feel like everything I do is nothing wrong.

I just want to be that to my children. The ultimate father.