Father Ted Quotes

#1. I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

John Dyer

#2. I have lived long enough to see real, significant changes made for the good...and I have been fortunate enough to have participated in some of them...One person can make a difference!
(Father Ted Hesburgh, C.S.C., quoted in our book, God's Icebreaker by Jill A. Boughton and Julie Walters)

Jill A. Boughton

#3. Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.

Oscar Wilde

#4. My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

Ted Danson

#5. Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

Robert Henri

#6. Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.

Ted Dekker

#7. I don't like to compare myself with anybody.

Don Rickles

#8. I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.

Ted Danson

#9. As Paul wrote, a love that is patient, showing no jealousy or arrogance, keeping no record of wrong, not seeking its own and not provoked by another's behavior. These are the evidences of true love which flows from those who know the Father and His limitless love for them.

Ted Dekker

#10. I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

Ted Cruz

#11. Divine sovereignty is not a substitute for human responsibility.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#12. Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

Ted Nugent

#13. Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#14. If I see a cool chick in the street, I'll watch her going by, won't I?

Isaac

#15. Were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the household, this is our fight, and that is why I'm running for president.

Ted Cruz

#16. I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.

Ted Cruz

#17. Women could be quite crafty, he knew that much. His father said it often. Smarter than men, too, most of the time. You had to know your way around if you wanted to fall in love with a woman.

Ted Dekker

#18. That is all the perspective you need!

Shepard Smith

#19. My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.

Ted Danson

#20. I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified.

Ted Danson

#21. I hate profile photos.

Kerry Stokes

#22. My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

John Dyer

#23. When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

Ted Cruz

#24. These were his people
a strange thought. Maybe not his very own people, as in father, mother, brother, sister, but people just like him. He was lost but not so lost after all.

Ted Dekker

#25. I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

Warren Littlefield

#26. I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.

Ted Nugent

#27. The present only is our own, So live, love, toil with a will, Place no faith in "Tomorrow," For the Clock may then be still." Robert H Smith

Darren Sugrue

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

Ted Turner

#29. A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out (Der Sparpfennig ist reicher denn der Zinspfenning).

Martin Luther

#30. I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

Ted Cruz

#31. When we learn from our cause and effect we increase our positives, we chip away and hopefully eliminate our negatives, so we can be beneficial to everyone else. It's not about being good for me, it's about being the best that I can be so I can be a good husband, father, and neighbor.

Ted Nugent

#32. I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.

Ted Demme

#33. I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

Ted Nugent

#34. Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#35. Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

Ludwig Von Mises

#36. Although I still have a long way to go, I would like to become the pride of Asia. When another Asian artist enters the U.S. market, I would like him to think, 'There was an artist called Rain who succeeded in the U.S. market.' This is my dream.

Rain

#37. My mistake was to confuse a destiny to love with a destiny to love a specific person. It was the error of thinking that Chloe, rather than love, was inevitable.

Alain De Botton

#38. Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United States from Cuba, and yet Ted Cruz is against immigration. Isn't that odd?

David Letterman

#39. When you have a desperate love for God,' Father Micheal would say, 'the comforts of this world feel like paper flowers. They are easily put aside. If you really have God's love.

Ted Dekker

#40. I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if I had to choose one, I would rather be alone.

Ted Michael

#41. You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.

Ted Danson

#42. The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.

Ted Cruz