Top 100 Father Of Quotes
#1. The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.
Imelda Marcos
#2. What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.
C.S. Lewis
#3. Delhi's most famous Sufi saint, Nizamuddin Auliya, who gave spiritual guidance to the incredible Amir Khusro - musician, scholar, poet and the father of qawwali.
Saba Naqvi
#4. The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
Lajos Kassak
#5. Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.
Zora Neale Hurston
#6. [Louis Armstrong is] the father of us all, regardless of style or how modern we get. His influence is inescapable. Some of the things he was doing in the 20's and 30's, people still haven't dealt with.
Nicholas Payton
#7. They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course.
Joseph Pulitzer
#8. The Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness,
Terry Pratchett
#9. What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium! For if we would compare the Infinite, it would surely require a greater Infinite to cause the causes of effects than to produce the effects themselves.
August Weismann
#10. Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.
Criss Jami
#11. What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
A.W. Tozer
#12. Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#13. Do you know who I am?" (Cassidy)
"Cassidy Summers, approximately thirty-years-old and a waitress who isn't sure who the father of her child really is." (Ashling)
Rosetta M. Overman
#14. Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsin who became biological father of Jobs and Mona Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the Boomtown casino near Reno.
Walter Isaacson
#15. Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God ...
John Locke
#17. Lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.
Charles Dickens
#18. Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower.
James Joyce
#19. I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."
Stanley Tucci
#20. Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains
in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#21. The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage.
Simone De Beauvoir
#22. The world is always ending for someone. It's a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. 'The world is always ending for someone,' he says. She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did.
Neil Gaiman
#23. What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make to Stephen, noctambulist?
James Joyce
#24. That's Xenophilius Lovegood, he's the father of a friend of ours,' said Ron. His pugnacious tone indicated that they were not about to laugh at Xenophilius, despite the clear provocation. 'Come and dance,' he added abruptly to Hermione.
J.K. Rowling
#25. A prince ... is only the first servant of the state, who is obliged to act with probity and prudence. ... As the sovereign is properly the head of a family of citizens, the father of his people, he ought on all occasions to be the last refuge of the unfortunate.
Frederick The Great
#26. It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!
Chet Faker
#27. Before the Memorial Cup final, Gord Wasden - the father of one of the Medicine Hat Tigers - stood
Malcolm Gladwell
#28. Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.
Simon Schama
#29. I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids!
John Petrucci
#30. Illness had an element of shame to it; no one wanted to be contaminated by the illness of another. So the father of Oryx was pitied, but also blamed and shunned. His wife tended him with silent resentment.
Margaret Atwood
#31. Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
Lord Byron
#32. In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.
Dennis Prager
#33. The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.
Cyril Of Jerusalem
#34. And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the contrary had not been seen, but time, which is said to be the father of every truth, will cause it to be discovered.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#35. He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
Cormac McCarthy
#36. For me, life without murder is like a life without food. I was the father of these people, since it was I who opened the door for them to another world.
Alexander Pichushkin
#37. Like myself, President Obama is the father of two daughters. He understands the obstacles that they face as women, but he also understands the emergency of the state of young black men in America.
Al Sharpton
#39. The fact that the Hebrew word 'adam', meaning 'man', is identical with Adam as the name of the father of Seth plays a fundamental role in fusing the three stories (Gen 2:7-3:24, 4:1, 4:25 and 5:1) in one.
Kamal Salibi
#40. rape of a woman. One of the sons of Rome's tyrannical king ravished Lucretia, a pure young wife. She told her husband and her father of this,
Phyllis T. Smith
#41. Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
Edmund Morgan
#42. And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.
David Neeleman
#43. I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#44. Years before, when a boy, and romantic as most boys are, his lordship had sometimes regretted that the Emsworths, though an ancient clan, did not possess a Family Curse. How little he had suspected that he was shortly to become the father of it.
P.G. Wodehouse
#45. Pure energy is the father of creation.
Dan Brown
#46. Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren
Frederick Douglass
#47. He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex.
Sarah Ferguson
#48. Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca
Karen Armstrong
#49. I am Abhorsen ... "
He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel
Garth Nix
#51. Your mind is like Heraclitus' river. Your mind, in fact, is like nineteenth-century father of psychology William James' "stream of consciousness," a bubbling, babbling brook. Your mind constantly produces different currents of associations, different swirls of thought, and different moods.
Howard Bloom
#52. Prayer is not itself powerful; it is not magic. But its power is unlimited in that the child of God calls on a Father of unlimited goodness and ability.
Peter H. Davids
#53. The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.
Josh Billings
#55. With 'Supermoms,' my ex-husband and father of my 15-year-old child was a writer-producer on that project. We're both of the mind that we should try and handle these changing times as best we can. He's very forward-thinking about brand marketing.
Julie Warner
#56. It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
Gertrude Stein
#57. Noah St. John, bad buy of rock and concerned father of imaginary daughters. Hell hath frozen over and become an ice ring.
Nalini Singh
#58. As Adam brought death, so Christ brought life; as Adam is the father of mortality, so Christ is the father of immortality.
Bruce R. McConkie
#60. 3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
Anonymous
#61. The Father of Glory (Ephesians 1:17), sent the Lord of Glory to lift up the man who had been crowned with the Glory, but had fallen from the Glory, back into the Glory of His Presence.
Brim Billye
#62. Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another.
Oliver Stone
#63. The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.
Samuel Rutherford
#64. As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.
Anna Quindlen
#65. 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
#67. On a personal level, I've seen a lot in my time as attorney general, but few things have affected me as greatly as my visit to Ferguson. I had the chance to meet with the family of Michael Brown. I spoke to them not just as attorney general but as a father of a teenage son myself.
Eric Holder
#68. As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.
Lee Haney
#69. over the centuries Dante has been variously "constructed" - as lover, statesman, neo-Platonist, proto-Protestant, Romantic visionary, Byronic hero, Pre-Raphaelite, father of his country, theologian in verse, precursor of the modern novel, and, finally, altissimo poeta, the consummate poet.
Peter S. Hawkins
#70. We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love " ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#71. The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm ... he really paints men.
Eugene Delacroix
#73. Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor,
Anonymous
#74. It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
George Washington
#75. Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
John Ciardi
#76. Father of mine, I abandon myself to you, make of me that which is pleasing to you. Whatever you might do to me, I thank you.
Charles De Foucauld
#77. The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.
Samuel Johnson
#78. The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
David Brainerd
#79. Follow your dreams, Bailey," she says. "Be they Harvard or something else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself." Bailey
Erin Morgenstern
#80. I thought I had to prove myself with money and accomplishments. But those will always ring hollow. They will never be enough. I want to be somebody. Let me be your husband. Let me be the father of your child -of all your children.
Courtney Milan
#81. To choose anything besides God is to be deceived by the "Father of Lies" who promises happiness but delivers death.
Lorilyn Roberts
#82. To use the machineries of justice to commit injustice is the deepest offense to the Father of Winter." He
Lois McMaster Bujold
#83. Life is never going to be boring with Christian, and I'm in this for the long haul. I love this man: my husband, my lover, father of my child, my sometimes Dominant ... ... my Fifty Shades.
E.L. James
#84. Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
Theodore Parker
#85. I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.
Dick Gregory
#86. I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
#87. Our journey was to be a great enterprise of balance. My father, of course, was bringing the Word of God - which fortunately weighs nothing at all.
Barbara Kingsolver
#88. Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God
Rick Riordan
#90. I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
Ken MacLeod
#91. I had to," Slate purred. "I couldn't let anything happen to the father of my kits.
Erin Hunter
#92. I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
Ouida
#93. And so it's interesting to remember that when Mahatma Gandhi, the father of an earlier freedom movement, came to England and was asked what he thought of English civilization, he replied: 'I think it would be a good idea.
Salman Rushdie
#94. Because as a father of three kids, I know how important good seeds are for providing healthy food for my family.
Sam Roberts
#95. As a father of six kids and as a man who's been transformed by the power of the gospel, I would never just let my kids flounder and just sort of try to figure out their own way through life when I know that I've got the best guide on the planet - God and His word.
Kirk Cameron
#96. When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.
Mariella Frostrup
#97. Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that I differ from the father of my sex in no important particular, being as manlike as most of his sons.
Owen Wister
#98. I've been called 'the father of loud.'
Dick Dale
#99. About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the sky. Of lying between two people who read me stories of wild things and journeys with dragons, the soft hum of their voices speaking of love and serenity. See, I remember love.
Melina Marchetta
#100. Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.
Eric Maskin
