Father Quotes
7648 quotes by 4358 authors
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content…
— Frank Abagnale
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I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
— Desi Arnaz
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher.…
— Chinua Achebe
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
— John James Audubon
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father…
— Paul Auster
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I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been…
— Teresa of Avila
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he…
— Teresa of Avila
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My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high…
— Jensen Ackles
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I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.
— Amitabh Bachchan
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Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called…
— Michael Badnarik
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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
— Joan Baez
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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.
— Enid Bagnold
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I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
— David Bailey
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
— James A. Baldwin
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to…
— Christian Bale
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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as…
— Honore de Balzac
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When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may…
— William Barclay
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Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not…
— Drew Barrymore
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