Father Ever Quotes

#1. Now you look here. All your father ever dreamed of for you was to do something you loved in life. He didn't care about fancy qualifications or fancy clothes or cars, just that you were both happy and fulfilled. He was so excited about your dreams for a career.

Hazel Gaynor

#2. My mother and Joe have a lovers' shorthand, an economy of gestures that comes when you are close enough to someone to speak their language. I wonder if my mother and father ever had that, or if my mother was always just trying to decipher him.

Jodi Picoult

#3. You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us.
Best lesson my father ever taught me.

Rick Yancey

#4. Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

Mario Puzo

#5. This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.

Melina Marchetta

#6. My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!

Charles Dickens

#7. I do admire your love for a gamble." He took her cup and drank from it as well. "I was simply thinking out loud earlier. There's no harm in thinking."
"I have my own thoughts. I am wondering why my father ever respected you.

Marie Rutkoski

#8. I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#9. I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.

Don Shula

#10. I once asked General Eisenhower's son, John, if his father ever nourished resentments. "No," he replied, "Dad never wastes a minute thinking about people he doesn't like.

Dale Carnegie

#11. Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then, the father proceeds with his instruction.

Donald Barthelme

#12. I have more pictures of my children than my father ever looked at me,

Jim Gaffigan

#13. You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever.

Jeannette Walls

#14. 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.

B.F. Skinner

#15. Has your father ever gone to prison?" She shakes her head. "I don't think so." "Your mother?" "I don't think so." "You're lucky. You should be grateful that's never been a part of your life." Takahashi smiles. "I don't suppose you know that." "Never thought about it." "Most people don't. I do." Mari

Haruki Murakami

#16. What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

St. Catherine Of Siena

#17. I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.

Augustine Of Hippo

#18. His father had a dream: to keep his hands forever clean. Joey wasn't clear whether his father had ever understood that it takes a lot of digging in the dirt to do that.

William H Gass

#19. Rachel kneeled beside Jacob. She took the child's hand and pressed it to the dirt. Her father had told Rachel that Harmons had been on this land since before the Revolutionary War.
"Don't ever forget what it feels like, Jacob," she whispered, and let her hand touch the ground as well.

Ron Rash

#20. Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president.

Barack Obama

#21. I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young.

Dorothy Hamill

#22. 'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.

Eric Clapton

#23. I can't get excited about a man until he's forty-two. I know this idiot girl who keeps telling me I ought to go to a head-shrinker; she says I have a father complex. Which is so merde. I simply trained myself to like older men, and it was the smartest thing I ever did.

Truman Capote

#24. His father looked wistful. 'And you don't feel anticlimatic?'
What's that?'
Somewhat the opposite of elated.'
What's elated again?'
Good feelings. That is to say, very good. You can feel, can't you? That's what I'm driving at. You don't ever wonder ... where feeling went?

Ali Shaw

#25. In the future I man a lighthouse with my wife, daughter, and father-in-law. We send out a great beam of light every night even though no one ever sees it.

Matthew Quick

#26. My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#27. I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.

Paula Yates

#28. There was no justice in the world, but he had known that ever since the death of his father. The spirits took no part in the lives of men once they had been born. A man either endured what the world sent his way, or was crushed.

Conn Iggulden

#29. How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.

Phil Plait

#30. ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question? Pray, what was your father saying? - Nothing.

Laurence Sterne

#31. But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.

Gore Vidal

#32. Our father always made us work. I think that's the greatest thing a parent could ever do.

Eric Trump

#33. I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

Laura Linney

#34. One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.

David O. McKay

#35. All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.

LL Cool J

#36. As the father of eight children, I'm quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries - it's the I that's in the ever-changing body.

Wayne Dyer

#37. I've wanted to work with my father for 30 years, and I'm really grateful that I finally had the opportunity, and it ended up - the experience and, I believe, the film - better than I could ever have hoped for.

Kiefer Sutherland

#38. and although her mother and father come to church every Sunday, and give liberally to charities, their little girl is not taught to find happiness by thinking of others rather than of herself, and so that poor little self of hers often feels as much neglected as Maggie Horn ever did.

Amy Ella Blanchard

#39. If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it
was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie
for Father's Day after all.
Percy Jackson

Rick Riordan

#40. Right now, even though he'd been dead for years, she wanted to collapse in her father's big arms and hear him tell her that everything would be all right. Do we ever outgrow that need?

Harlan Coben

#41. My father, Philip Fisher, was the toughest guy I ever knew. An example: He had terrible teeth, yet he got his fillings done without ever using a painkiller. Now, that's tough!

Kenneth Fisher

#42. The greatest thrilling experience that you and I can ever have in our hearts will be on those occasions when deep down we receive the witness that our acts and our labors are approved by our Heavenly Father.

Charles A. Callis

#43. Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#44. If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.

Alfred Noyes

#45. If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.

Francesca Lia Block

#46. [M]y father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.

John S. Hall

#47. As a child i used to complain to my father about not having toys and he would say (calvero points at his own head) this is the greatest toy ever created. Here lies the secret of all happiness.

Anonymous

#48. 20 To our God and Father be glory forever and ever (through the endless eternities of the eternities). Amen (so be it).

Anonymous

#49. Your father was the best friend I ever had, and he was a good person. A

J.K. Rowling

#50. If thou didst ever thy dear father love - Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder

William Shakespeare

#51. I graduated from Jones College, man, in Jacksonville, Florida, baby! I couldn't get in anywhere else, man. I was the worst student ever. I couldn't get in anywhere else. My father insisted I go to college, so I graduated, made the dean's list and everything.

Joe Piscopo

#52. A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

Irving Bacheller

#53. When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave me as much motherly advice or seemed to love me more than did Sister Snow. I loved her with all my heart, and loved her hymn, 'O My Father.'

Heber J. Grant

#54. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. - John 14:16 kjv

Gary Chapman

#55. There's life after divorce, Sarah,' my father proclaimed, not that he'd ever been divorced.

Claire Cook

#56. When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.

A.B. Simpson

#57. People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

Peter Fonda

#58. He'd wondered for so many years if he'd ever be able to forgive his father. Maybe he'd just used the wrong word. Surrender. Acceptance. Those seemed better.

Jeffrey Small

#59. My father was the best person i've ever known.

Warren Buffett

#60. Maybe there was a place where the people were safe, where Archer and his kin had carved out a place free from danger. Or maybe the dark magic her father had feared had consumed them all, and turned the only boy she'd ever loved into a monster beyond reckoning.

Anonymous

#61. My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.

Andrew Taylor Still

#62. Nobody ever asks men about the work-life balance, and I just find that interesting, because clearly, I would imagine most men also want to be good fathers, and I'm sure they want to be good partners.

Katie Couric

#63. Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#64. My father wants to take your faorite song and play it better than you've ever heard.

I want to take your least favorite song, and play it so good that you like it.

Jason Reitman

#65. I remember my late father, who was the biggest football fan I have ever known, used to stress when I was younger that, win or lose, you always have to compete with honor.

Adam Richman

#66. No one ever saw all of him. It took me nearly four decades to allow my father his shadows, his reserve, to sit silently with him and not clamor for something more.

Patti Davis

#67. The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

James D. Watson

#68. Hello my darling,
I'm your real father. I've been searching for you ever since you were stolen from me. I love you so much.
Daddy

Sanjida Kay

#69. I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

Larry Wilcox

#70. My father is a fire chief and was a fire fighter when I was growing up and I always looked up to him. So, I found out about 911 dispatchers, not something I had ever thought about, and put in for it.

Cameron West

#71. The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine

Benjamin Franklin

#72. I also pursue excellence, and Father told me that it can only ever be pursued, never caught - though

Jo Walton

#73. Her father had admired her mother without ever truly understanding her. And her mother--her mother had relied on her father without appreciating him. There had been a gulf between them that couldn't be bridged by all the goodwill in the world.

Beatriz Williams

#74. Don't let this[football] be the best thing that ever happens in your life. Maybe it'll be the best sports event, but don't let it be the best thing. Make sure you're a better father than this today. Make sure you're a better husband than this today. Because this goes away ... It's a game.

Mack Brown

#75. My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say

Susan Smith

#76. Ever since the day my father died I've understood. So long as the king lives, I will never be free of him.

Laura Thalassa

#77. No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

John Irving

#78. Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.

Natasha Trethewey

#79. I testify that Jesus Christ, born in Bethlehem, was and is the Only Begotten of the Father, the Lamb of God. He chose from before the foundations of the earth to be your Savior, my Savior, and the Savior of all we will ever know or meet.

Henry B. Eyring

#80. I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.

Patsy Kensit

#81. 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.

J. C. Watts

#82. She was Grandma Will. That term felt foreign and unfitting to the relationship they had. She wondered if her father had ever called her Mother, Ma, Mom, Mama? Maybe in private he might have, but to the world, all the world, it was Aunt Will.

Pamela Morsi

#83. My father knew my husband long before I ever did. He actually always says that he loved him first ... there really was this wonderful respect and admiration between the two of them before I even came into the picture.

Stephanie McMahon

#84. To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#85. He often repeated something Father Abrahan said to him once, how faith is ever young, how faith, unlike the rest of us, does not age.

Yann Martel

#86. Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.

Danny Huston

#87. I do not think that I am a natural born mother ... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#88. Bush is smart. I don't think that Bush will ever be impeached, 'cause unlike Clinton, Reagan, or even his father, George W. is immune from scandal. Because, if George W. testifies that he had no idea what was going on, wouldn't you believe him?

Jay Leno

#89. My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.

Chevy Chase

#90. The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.

Andrew Murray

#91. Mami said nothing for a while, and then she went into her bedroom. I figured she was going to emerge with my father's Saturday-night special, the one thing of his that she'd kept when he left. To protect us, she claimed, but more likely to shoot my father dead if she ever saw him again.

Junot Diaz

#92. I am just an earthly sinful father & I love my kids so much it hurts. How could I not trust a heavenly, perfect Father who loves me infinitely more than I will ever love my kids?

Francis Chan

#93. I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

Pat Nixon

#94. And in just this way the days after my father's death became weeks became months in the familiar ceaseless cruelty of time, carrying us ever forward even when we sit still. Time does not pass, pain grows. (p.223)

Niall Williams

#95. Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

Richard Reeves

#96. Even Christ pleased not Himself. He was utterly consumed in the zeal of His Father's house. As man He ever moved for God. As God He ever moved for man.

Geoffrey T. Bull

#97. And as for my father? No, he wouldn't ever walk through those gates; I now knew that. Whatever Thomas Stone had, wherever he was at this moment, he had no idea what he'd given up in the exchange.

Abraham Verghese

#98. People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.

Jenna Bush

#99. (to father) Aren't you glad that you've never had to buy vegeterian cookery books as the first small step on the road to getting inside someone's knickers?
(father) ... however vegeterian recepies you have read, you still have more fun than we were ever allowed.

Nick Hornby

#100. But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.

Randy Pausch