Top 100 Father Martin Quotes
#1. Have you noticed how Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen look nothing alike, and yet they both manage to look exactly like their father, Martin?
Ken O'Neill
#2. You disappoint me, Arianne.
Said the crow to the raven. You have been disappointing me for years, Father.
George R R Martin
#3. The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.
Christopher Buckley
#4. He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.
George Martin
#5. I don't want to marry you,' Sansa wailed. 'You chopped off my father's head!
George R R Martin
#6. PRAYER O God, our merciful Father in heaven, fill our hearts with patience under the cross, strengthen our faith, and so govern us that we give offense to none, neither in word nor deed. Grant us also this day all that we need for body and soul. Amen.
Martin Luther
#7. More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."
Martin Niemoller
#8. Since God will have us leave father and mother for his sake, certainly he will have us leave lords (governors) for his sake.
Martin Luther
#9. Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.
Martin Scorsese
#10. I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.' And I want them to belong to a modern family, and live a path of happiness and calm.
Ricky Martin
#11. Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.
Martin Luther
#12. Snow, the boy is called," Pycelle said unhelpfully. "I glimpsed him once at Winterfell," the queen said, "though the Starks did their best to hide him. He looks very like his father." Her husband's by-blows had his look as well, though at least Robert had the grace to keep them out of sight.
George R R Martin
#13. There isn't what my father called the cruising hostility of the English press - where they're looking around for something to attack. You don't feel that there's a great reservoir of resentment in the press as you do in England.
Martin Amis
#14. One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
Martin Amis
#15. Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#16. My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.
Martin McGuinness
#17. My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood."
"Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.
George R R Martin
#18. Thus I come, most blessed Father, and in all abasement beseech you to put to your hand, if it is possible, and impose a curb to those flatterers who are enemies of peace, while they pretend peace.
Martin Luther
#20. Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.
Martin Luther
#21. Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.
Martin Yan
#22. What he works at makes no matter. What matters is, he works. The Father rules, the Warrior fights, the Smith labors, and together they perform all that is rightful for a man.
George R R Martin
#23. My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
Martin Scorsese
#24. Necklace. The parchment curled, blackened, and took flame. Theon was aghast. "Have you gone mad?" His father laid a stinging backhand across his cheek. "Mind your tongue. You are not in Winterfell now, and I am not Robb the Boy, that you should speak to me so. I am the Greyjoy, Lord Reaper of Pyke,
George R R Martin
#25. People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
Martin Short
#26. This is old news, and stale," growled the Shavepate. "Your mother said the same of your father's kisses," Daario replied.
George R R Martin
#27. Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please.
George R R Martin
#28. Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.
Steve Martin
#29. Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of His children. Man cannot save himself, for man is not the measure of all things and humanity is not God. Bound by the chains of his own sin and finiteness, man needs a Savior.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#30. Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.
George R R Martin
#31. My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.
Martin Amis
#32. They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.
Martin McGuinness
#33. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.
Barack Obama
#34. You would abandon Tommen." "Tommen has his mother." Ser Kevan's green eyes met her own, unblinking. A last drop of wine trembled wet and red beneath his chin, and finally fell. "Aye," he added softly, after a pause, "and his father too, I think.
George R R Martin
#35. This is love with legs.' My father used to say that you can tell someone you love them until you're blue in the face, but until they see that walked out, they have no idea what it means. Hence, 'love with legs.'" A wide smile spread across her face. "Every day he'd climb out
Charles Martin
#36. I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.
Martin Luther
#37. I have no one to talk with, Father," she told him. "I pray, but the gods do not answer.
George R R Martin
#38. I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.
Martin Sheen
#39. That was when the dwarf turned to the eunuch and said, "I've killed my father," in the same tone a man might use to say, "I've stubbed my toe.
George R R Martin
#40. Tyrion pushed forward. "MY LORDS! " he shouted. He had to shout, to have any hope of being heard.
His father raised a hand. Bit by bit, the hall grew silent.
George R R Martin
#41. Noooo," Cersei wailed, "Father help him, someone help him, my son, my son ... '
Tyrian found himself thinking of Robb Stark. My own wedding is looking much better in hindsight.
George R R Martin
#42. My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.
Mitt Romney
#43. God the Father has made everything to depend on faith, so that whosoever has it has all things, and he who has it not has nothing.
Martin Luther
#44. Her father said there was no shame in being afraid, only in showing your fear. "All men live with fear," he said.
George R R Martin
#45. She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.
George R R Martin
#46. Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.
Martin Luther
#47. Joffrey received loving kisses from the bride's father and his two new brothers, Loras and Garlan. No one seemed in any great rush to kiss Tyrion. When the king and queen had taken their seats, the High Septon rose to lead a prayer.
George R R Martin
#48. My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it.
George R R Martin
#49. No wall can keep you safe," his father told him once, as they walked the walls of Winterfall. "A wall is only as strong as the men who defend it.
George R R Martin
#50. Without Christ there is no access to the Father, but futile rambling; no truth, but hypocrisy; no life, but eternal death.
Martin Luther
#51. I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.
Ricky Martin
#52. And it was only in that moment, as I felt my father's arms holding me upright and his strength keeping me steady, that I knew his love was strong enough to protect me from an ocean.
Martin Pistorius
#53. I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys)
George R R Martin
#54. If I pray nicely, will the Father give me a new hand?
No. But the Warrior will give you courage, the Smith will lend you strength, and the Crone will give you wisdom.
It's a hand I need.
George R R Martin
#55. Nasty thing, a crossbow. How many men you kill with that?"
"Nine." His father counted for at least that many, surely. Lord of Casterly Rock, Warden of the West, Shield of Lannisport, Hand of the King, husband, brother, father, father, father.
George R R Martin
#56. The skin was warm, blue veins branching like rivers beneath his pale translucent skin. Outside the greater rivers flowed, the Red Fork and the Tumblestone, and they would flow forever, but not so the rivers in her father's hand. Too soon that current would grow still.
George R R Martin
#57. The oft repeated jape about his father was just another lie, Lord Tywin Lannister in the end did not shit gold.
George R R Martin
#58. It's Magic, you see. It's justice you hold. It's vengeance for your father. It's home.
George R R Martin
#59. Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
George R R Martin
#60. God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.
Martin Luther
#61. These wolves are more than wolves, Robb. You must know that. I think perhaps the gods sent them to us. Your father's gods, the old gods of the north. Five wolf pups, Robb, five for five Stark children.
George R R Martin
#62. The septons were always going on about how the Father Above judges us all. If the Father would be so good as to topple over and crush Joff like a dung beetle, I might even believe it.
George R R Martin
#63. He is not my father. The thought leapt unbidden to Jon's mind. Lord Eddard Stark is my father. I will not forget him, no matter how many swords they give me. Yet he could scarcely tell Lord Mormont that it was another man's sword he dreamt of ...
George R R Martin
#64. Well, my father [Kingsley Amis] was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was young and bold and foolish, otherwise I'd have become too self-conscious and aware of the weight of not having written anything yet.
Martin Amis
#65. Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.
Martin Amis
#66. And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we'll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.
Beth Revis
#67. Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda,
Alveda King
#68. And his father's voice replied to him. That is the only time a man can be brave.
George R R Martin
#69. I'm Dhani Harrison," he said. "One of the last things my father told me was that if I ever come across people who were important to him, I should give them a hug.
Martin Short
#70. My brother is undoubtedly arrogant," Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you?
George R R Martin
#71. A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
Steve Martin
#72. None taken, Ser Jaremy. My father is very fond of spiked heads, especially those of people who have annoyed him in some fashion. And a face as noble as yours, well, no doubt he saw you decorating the city wall above King's Gate. I think you would have looked very striking up there.
George R R Martin
#73. God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing
Martin Luther
#74. I will gladly trade his freedom for a father. Have you one to give me?
George R R Martin
#75. All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'
Martin Amis
#76. Trueborn children are made in a marriage bed and blessed by the Father and the Mother, but bastards are born of lust and weakness.
George R R Martin
#77. My father went south once, to answer the summons of a king. He never came home again.
George R R Martin
#78. My father and mother did not think they should have brought a superintendent into the world.
Martin Luther
#79. The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#80. Any man who steps between a father and his vengeance asks for death.
George R R Martin
#81. We never get over our fathers, and we're not required to. (Irish Proverb)
Martin Sheen
#82. My father was from Northern Ireland, and coming from somewhere like that, your faith defines you. That's something we don't really understand outside Northern Ireland, but because of my parents and grandparents, I've experienced it.
Anna Maxwell Martin
#83. It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.
Martin Amis
#84. Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.
Martin Andersen Nexo
#85. I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.
Jenny Lewis
#86. Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it.
Martin Luther
#87. I should say something, but what? Pardon me, Father, but it's our brother she wants to marry?
George R R Martin
#88. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" (1 Timothy 1.15). The Lord was not a political hero who had risen from among men. He had descended from heaven where he had sat at the right hand of the Father. Thank God Jesus came!
Lee Roy Martin
#89. Who'd want to kill the likes of you?"
"My lord father, for one. He's put me in the van."
"I'd do the same. A small man with a big shield. You'll give the archers fits.
George R R Martin
#90. His father took off the man's head with a single sure stroke. Blood sprayed out across the snow, as red as summerwine.
George R R Martin
#91. Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.
George R R Martin
#92. Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel that my father, had he lived longer, might have been a touch disapproving of some of my career - I think he might have tutted a bit at 'Men Behaving Badly.'
Martin Clunes
#93. When I was thirteen, I wed a crofter's daughter. Or so I thought her. I was blind with love for her, and thought she felt the same for me, but my father rubbed my face in the truth. My bride was a whore Jaime had hired to give me my first taste of manhood.
George R R Martin
#94. He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway." "Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.
George R R Martin
#95. My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
Gail Z. Martin
#96. In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.
Martin Jacques
#97. I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.
Mitt Romney
#98. God is our Father and our God, but only in Christ Jesus.
Martin Luther
#99. I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.
Steve Martin
#100. My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular awareness of solidarity. That creates links that aren't present in other relationships.
Jean-Claude Juncker
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