Quotes about Father
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
- Barack Obama
He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being.
- Brigham Young
A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.
- David Jeremiah
When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.
- Marilyn Monroe
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
- St. John Chrysostom
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
- St. Augustine
When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- David O. McKay
A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.
- Washington Irving
If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.
- Henry David Thoreau
Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love.
- Alistair Begg
When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'
- Ronald Reagan
My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.
- Jesse Jackson