Father of the bride Quotes

15 quotes from 14 authors

When a daughter walks down the aisle, a father’s words often carry a mix of pride, nostalgia, and gentle humor. This selection gathers 15 memorable lines from 14 different authors, offering perspectives that range from tender advice to witty observations about that special role.

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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

Khalil Gibran

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Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Ogden Nash

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

Vincente Minnelli

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Working with Nancy Meyers ("Something's Gotta Give") and ... Charles Shyer ("Father of the Bride"), and I'm proud of "Reds," and I'm…

Diane Keaton

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The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a…

Vincente Minnelli

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Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at…

George Jean Nathan

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It's funny when people ask if I'm a lesbian. I played a real estate agent in 'Father of the Bride, Part II,'…

Nora Dunn

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Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids,…

Judith Martin

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I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring,…

Steve Martin

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I'm a total fangirl for Nancy Meyers. I love all her movies - 'Something's Gotta Give,' 'Father of the Bride,' 'The Parent…

Rebecca Serle

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The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those…

Tom Brokaw

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“energy so abundantly that be could talk with a voice sounding as a large bell. Being asked by Wang the secret of…

Kaiten Nukariya

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“Don Fabrizio remembered a conversation with Father Pirrone some months before in the sunlit observatory. What the Jesuit had predicted had come…

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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“Then you repeat. The thing that goes badly wrong means that the someone we like has to take another step to get…

John C Wright

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“He did take her to the movies. They saw Father of the Bride. Grace hated it. She hated girls like Elizabeth Taylor…

Alice Munro

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