Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
I don’t know about marriage as much as I do know that I’d be a great father.
I made ‘Saving Private Ryan’ for my father. He’s the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.
Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
When my, British-Church of England mother married my, Canadian-Jewish Father, the deal was that she would embrace Judaism, but wouldn’t give up her Christmas tree. So, I grew up with Christmas every year. I loved it then and I love it now.
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother’s discernment and my father’s strength.
Find something bigger than yourself and pour every ounce of who you are into it. If that’s your family, be the best father on Earth. If you are a cop, firefighter, or a trash man, be the best.
I knew two things from my father: keep working hard, stay humble, and someday you’ll be OK.
Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won’t play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.
My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn’t have status or wealth.
I’m the youngest of four boys, and my oldest brother, Todd, was like a father figure to me. We were very close even though we were 23 years apart. When my parents were working, he was the one there for me. He was diagnosed with lung cancer when he was 15 years old.
We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world – issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.
My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then there was my twin brother and my sister. We had two aunts as well, my father’s sisters. But the immediate family consisted of my mother, my brother, my sister, and me.
Through all the craziness, what I know is that I’m a good husband and a good father and I do a great job with my kids.
I tell everyone in the world that I have always been the best father I could be and that I was the worst husband. Wooo!
To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.
I barely remembered my father; I’m confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.
My father used to say, ‘I want you to be a good man; I want you to learn how to work. And I want you to be a serious person.’ I grew up with that in my mind.
I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.
You have only to see what became of my father’s will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.
My father was in property, but he was a great lover of music.
Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don’t like it. My father said, ‘Jack, I’m so good, you’ll never be’ – but I’m better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life.
The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father’s children who were in desperate temporal need.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn’t want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
