Father Quotes - page 92

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.' (Jo Nesbo)
Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke. View quote
Joyce Meyer
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not. View quote
Joyce Meyer
It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me. View quote
Joyce Meyer
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. View quote
Joyce Meyer
My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere. View quote
Joyce Meyer
I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is. View quote
Enrique Iglesias
I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win. View quote
Chris Pine
In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being. View quote
Michael Fox
My son will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed 8 million on his last picture. View quote
Michael Fox
I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born. (Olga Kurylenko)
It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game. View quote
Robert Duvall
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. View quote
Sam Ewing
The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels. View quote
Kathryn Kuhlman
I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own horse I couldn't wait to go off on my own. View quote
Andrea Bocelli
I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me. View quote
Bil Keane
My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right. View quote
Vidya Balan
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about. View quote
Alan King
That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about. View quote
Alan King
It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback. View quote
Alan King
As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father. (Alan King)
My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.' View quote
Alan King
Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did. View quote
Martin Andersen Nexø
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. View quote
Austin O'Malley
My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses. View quote
Richard M. Daley