3608 Father Quotes for You to Enjoy

I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis. James Burrows

Business Father Drive Never Because Wanted Show Show Business

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things. James Cameron

Love Technology Respect Father Build Engineering Attempt Genetic Always Get Trying Maybe Just Interest Fascinated Things

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. James Cameron

Mother Engineer Father Also She Housewife Artist Electrical

My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman. James Costos

I was going to design sports cars, but my father came to my college to visit me. At the time he was making a picture in Sweden and he took me there with him. I got to see Ingmar Bergman's company and I thought, 'Gee, filmmaking is a lot more fun than sports cars,' so I decided to follow him and go into acting. James Cromwell

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My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. James Cronin

Class Mother Father Met Watson Had Greek Northwestern Dorothy University

I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution. James D. Watson

Me Rain Passion Father Bird First Books Evolution Charles About Darwin Had Indoors Schoolboy Read Learned Became Still His Chicago Up Snow While Growing Growing Up Aware Kept

God and His Son are glorified personages. God the Father is our living Creator, and His Son, Jesus Christ, is our Savior and Redeemer. We have been created in God's image. James E. Faust

God Son Christ Father Living Savior Our Redeemer Glorified Been His Created Creator Image Jesus Jesus Christ

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. James E. Faust

Great Mother Challenge Father Only Divine Calling Effort Being Requiring

I have the greatest respect for single parents who struggle and sacrifice, trying against almost superhuman odds to hold the family together. They should be honored and helped in their heroic efforts. But any mother's or father's task is much easier where there are two functioning parents in the home. James E. Faust

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When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tabernacle. I remember how thrilled I was to be in the presence, for the first time, of the prophet of God, President Heber J. Grant, and the other prophets and apostles. James E. Faust

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As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act. James E. Faust

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The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge. James E. Faust

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When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy. James Ellroy

Politics World Father President Everything Kid About Had Like Massachusetts Accent Been Forever Jack Eisenhower Interested Sudden Kennedy

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer. James Fallows

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I knew early I wanted to follow my father into the military. He did a full 30-year career and retired as a full colonel in the Marines after graduating from Allentown H.S. and later from Cornell University. James G. Stavridis

Father Military Marines Later Follow Colonel He Knew Retired Did Graduating Wanted After Full Early Career University

My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I become an actor? Where did I get the so-called talent to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can remember that she used to, what she called 'bei zhu.' James Hong

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My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played. James Nasmyth

As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I could say a final goodbye after the longest goodbye and relief that my mum had finally been released. James Nesbitt

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My father was a Vietnam vet, and he was Green Beret. James Ransone

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Some people think that your life changes for the worse when you become a father, but on the contrary, when my daughter was born, she brought light and joy into my life. James Rodriguez

I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poems, I prepared to enter a remote West Point. I would succeed there, it was hoped, as he had. James Salter

Me Father Vain Else Seventeen Enter Hoped Would Poems More More Than Anything Point Had He Spoiled Knew Remote West West Point Than Wanted Anything Anything Else Succeed Prepared

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