Dad Quotes About Love & Connection – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

Lasse Hallstrom

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

Simon Newcomb

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

Dick Bruna

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Roald Dahl

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

Jim Fowler

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Anais Nin

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

Vincente Minnelli

In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.

Mary Antin

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

Conrad Hall

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

Pierre Corneille

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

Philip Warren Anderson

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

Ted Turner

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

Roald Dahl

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Publilius Syrus

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.

John F. Kennedy

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Harper Lee

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

Franz Boas

God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

Bill Hybels

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

Louis Leakey

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

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

Michael Beschloss

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

Clifford Geertz

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

Josef Albers

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

Josh McDowell

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

Edward Kennedy

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

Ernestine Rose

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

Marianne Moore

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

Gordon Getty

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

Lawrence Eagleburger

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

Paul Getty

Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

Laura Bush

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

Daniel Goleman

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.

Larry McMurtry

So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

Lisa Guerrero

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Angela Carter

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Lillian Hellman

Doubt is the father of invention.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

Warren Christopher

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

Gustav Stresemann

My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.

Richard M. Daley

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Gordon Brown

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

Francis Ford Coppola

We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.

Janet Reno

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

Atom Egoyan

The child is father of the man.

William Wordsworth