Quotes about father
father people condom
If we can just get young people to do the same as their fathers did, that is, wear condoms Richard Branson
father effort trying
It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again. Tim Hansel
father cities never-settle
Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. Robert A. Heinlein
father perspective film
It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father. Sonia Braga
father kids good-friend
When I talk to [my kids], I remember my father talking to me, so it's understandable that I would make a film like "Aquarius." A very good friend of mine saw the film, and she said it was clear that it had been made by someone who had just become a father.
father thinking eight
I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatre, it was ridiculous. Rutger Hauer
father film-critics criticism
My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life. Roger Corman
father believe son
I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. . . . that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God. . . . that God did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners, and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer. Roger Sherman
father bird littles
My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant. Roger Tory Peterson
father heart reality
The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through. Roger Clemens
father kids healthy
Because as a father of three kids, I know how important good seeds are for providing healthy food for my family. Sam Roberts
father believe blessing
Our heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are ready to believe or receive; and at the same time more terrible to the workers of iniquity, more awful in the executions of His punishments, and more ready to detect in every false way, than we are apt to suppose Him to be... Sam Smith
father exhausted our-family
Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted. Sam Sheppard
father media different
My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different. Rupert Murdoch
father careers congress
Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career. Rush Limbaugh
father special-people long
The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.
father mirrors soul
You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father. Thomas Merton
father men giving
The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.
father party eye
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable. Thomas Carlyle
father thinking editors
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer. Tom Wolfe
father thinking tree
Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. Steve Buscemi
father thinking italian
My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli' and it was changed in the mid '50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name 'Caroselli.' Steve Carell
father productive-life accomplishment
Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment. Stephen Hunter
father bars doe
One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life. Stephen Hawking
father thrill information
Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head.
father government people
The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. Ronald Reagan
father silly america
These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.
father thinking america
Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.
father kids tennis
I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you. Roger Federer
father government giving
The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the Federal government the power to impose an income tax. Needless to say, the Founders would be horrified to know that Americans today give more than a third of their income to the Federal government. Ron Paul
father real liberty
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.
father humble winning
How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.
father government political
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.