Father Quotes

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

~ Albrecht Dürer

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

~ Renzo Piano

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

~ Donald Barthelme

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

~ Bernard Tschumi

As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

~ Nathaniel Kahn

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.

~ John Dickerson

In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

~ Douglas Fairbanks

In the same way that I cannot be perfect and need grace for my mistakes, I also need to give my kids grace. I am constantly learning to be patient with them, understanding that they won't do everything right all the time, while still holding them to a high standard, as their heavenly father does.

~ Benjamin Watson

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

~ Rita Dove

I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.

~ Jonathan Tisch

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

~ Jose Andres

My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.

~ Janet Fitch

I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.

~ Yotam Ottolenghi

Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.

~ George Takei

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

~ Martin Luther

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

~ Marilyn Manson

I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family was Catholic, but you know, just very kind of conventionally Catholic. You know, nothing - there was nothing, you know, extreme about their version of religion. And my father was a free spirit, you know? He had no time for religion at all.

~ Pawel Pawlikowski

I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, 'Dad, why don't you wear that at work?' And he said, 'Your religion should be in your actions.' He set a great, great example.

~ Hugh Jackman

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

~ Aaron Neville

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

~ Orson Pratt

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

~ William Pennington

I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'

~ Pelé

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

~ Giordano Bruno

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

~ Robert Matsui

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

~ H. G. Wells

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

~ François Rabelais

My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

~ Michelle Bachelet

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

~ Moon Unit Zappa

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories for your son.

~ Bill Goldberg

My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.

~ Scott Eastwood

My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.

~ Rashida Jones

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

~ Frank A. Clark

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.

~ Amy Chua

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

~ Michael Beschloss

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

~ Marina Abramović

In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died.

~ Clive Sinclair