Quotes about fathers

"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?"

Addison, Joseph on fathers   

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"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."

Bagnold, Enid on fathers
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"Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

Bible on fathers   

"Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. [Ephesians 6:4]"

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"Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life."

Butler, Samuel on fathers   

"As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless."

Chesterfield, Lord on fathers   

"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!"

Child, Lydia M. on fathers
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"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them."

Confucius on fathers
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"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right."

Cosby, Bill on fathers   

"You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together."

Cosby, Erika on fathers   

"Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee."

Courtney, Margaret on fathers   

"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example."

Cuomo, Mario on fathers   

"What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father."

Dodge, Mary Mapes on fathers   

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"Noble fathers have noble children."

Euripides on fathers
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"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."

Euripides on fathers   

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."

Freud, Sigmund on fathers
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"To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years."

Hemingway, Ernest on fathers   

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."

Herbert, George on fathers   

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

Hesburgh, Theodore M. on fathers
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"There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."

Hugo, Victor on fathers
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"By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven."

Macarthur, Douglas on fathers   

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on fathers
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"The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get."

Mcginley, Phyllis on fathers   

"Don't make a baby if you can't be a father."

National Urban League Slogan on fathers
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"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fathers
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"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."

Nin, Anais on fathers   

"The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father."

O'Malley, Austin on fathers   

"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care."

Penn, William on fathers   

"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children."

Penn, William on fathers   

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"A father is a banker provided by nature."

Proverb, French on fathers   

"The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them."

Russell, Bertrand on fathers   

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."

Sexton, Anne on fathers
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"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

Shakespeare, William on fathers
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"My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately"

Shaw, George Bernard on fathers   

"An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!"

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on fathers   

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"That is the thankless position of the father in the family -- the provider for all, and the enemy of all."

Strindberg, J. August on fathers   

"An angry father is most cruel toward himself."

Syrus, Publilius on fathers
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"What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!"

Terence on fathers   

"One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be."

Unknown, Source on fathers
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"None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal."

Victoria, Queen on fathers