Quotes About Father Of The Bride

#1. The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.

Tom Brokaw

#2. It's funny when people ask if I'm a lesbian. I played a real estate agent in 'Father of the Bride, Part II,' but no one has asked me if I sell real estate.

Nora Dunn

#3. The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.

Vincente Minnelli

#4. The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

Vincente Minnelli

#5. Theodore Rex. Roosevelt was driven by ambition, idealism and vanity. As his daughter famously remarked: My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.

Margaret MacMillan

#6. I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.'
'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.

William Goldman

#7. The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.

Ursula Goodenough

#8. Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.

William Goldman

#9. 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

#10. After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

Evan Esar

#11. Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed
the two bridemaids were duly inferior
her father gave her away
her mother stood with salts in her hand expecting to be agitated
her aunt tried to cry
and the service was impressively read by Dr. Grant.

Jane Austen

#13. We are all capable of regulating how we think and feel. It just boils down to owning that power.

Carlos Wallace

#14. A clock with no hands. "Freedom!" is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. A

David Mitchell

#15. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. 'The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl,

Gregory David Roberts

#16. Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

George Meredith

#17. Lobola ("bride price") is a retired broke father's last hope to paying off his debts.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new - She parts from love which hath still been true.

Martha Finley

#19. As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.

Jessica Valenti

#20. You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.

Joe Torre

#21. I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

Angela Carter

#22. So you killed my father? You killed my bride?" he growled.
"She wasn't even your woman."
Why did everyone feel the need to remind him of that?

Chelsea Fine

#23. When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

Madeleine L'Engle

#24. 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

#25. There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

Joseph Addison

#26. Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.

Sam Kean

#27. you are
as fleetingly beautiful

as a mother's tears
and a father's pranks

a brother's bachelorhood
and a best friend's bad mood

a bride's glittering jitters
and a handsome stranger's smile.

Sanober Khan

#28. as I watched their approach I wondered whether the slow pace of a wedding march was for the benefit of a bride on her most beautiful day, or for the aging father preparing to give her away.

Nickolas Butler

#29. The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#30. But on the upside, I guess we're getting ready to find out if you really only love me for my jet."
"I might love you for your jet," Gabrielle said, straight-faced.
He smiled a Kat. "What about you?"
"Yeah," Kat said, nodding. "I guess that is the question.

Ally Carter