Top 27 Father's Approval Quotes
#1. I came here as a son seeking his father's approval, hoping you could recognize what she and I have. But, it appears you're business as usual.
Nicole Gulla
#2. My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn ... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.
Bob Feller
#3. I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
Jules Verne
#4. My father had infused my childhood with unspoken blame. He was the kind of man who scoped around looking for things to be angry at. It had turned me into a knee-jerk suck-up to authority - Mom, Dad, teachers. 'Whatever makes your job easier, sir or madam.' I craved a constant stream of approval.
Gillian Flynn
#5. My father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. 'You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!
Barack Obama
#6. As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.
Ambrose
#7. The corporation that shrinks from the light would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.
Theodore Roosevelt
#8. Men' s souls are naturally inclined to covetousness; but if ye be kind towards women and fear to wrong tgem, God is well acquainted with what ye do.
Nevil Shute
#9. 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
#10. Social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.
Fannie Barrier Williams
#11. Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
Alan Keyes
#12. My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.
Wilbur Smith
#13. I never get used to the red carpets and premieres, to be honest, but when you're walking down the red carpet promoting stories such as 'Mabo,' it means everything to me.
Deborah Mailman
#14. Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.
Philip Jose Farmer
#15. I'm a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That's why I'm instrumental, vibrations is what I'm into.
Kanye West
#16. No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
Marcel Proust
#17. There are boys here who have to mend their shoes whatever way they can. There are boys in this class with no shoes at all. It's not their fault and it's no shame. Our Lord had no shoes. He died shoeless. Do you see Him hanging on the cross sporting shoes? Do you, boys?
Frank McCourt
#18. When we remember our identity in Christ, it changes the way we see these relationships because we no longer base our worth on the approval of others but the approval we have already received from our Father through the work of His son.
Amy E. Spiegel
#19. A person without regrets is a nincompoop.
Mia Farrow
#20. 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
#21. Welcome to the first ever Selection Variety Show, starring a bunch of losers competing for your attention.
Kiera Cass
#22. At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.
Frank Pittman
#23. And what will you call her, then?" Nancy asked the new mother. "Abigail," Naomi said. "We will call her Abigail." "Ah," Nancy said with a smile of approval. "'Tis Hebrew, meaning 'the father's joy.
Melanie Schmidt
#24. And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.
Thomas Cranmer
#25. My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval.
Siri Hustvedt
#26. The best and the most talented in the pastoral ministry and in denominational hierarchies harm themselves and harm the church most through their unrestrained ego and unwillingness to step off the high places. Sexual sin gets the press, but ego sin kills the church.
David Hansen
#27. He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.
Sherman Alexie
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