Father Quotes

7648 Father quotes by 4179 unique authors

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be… — Leo Tolstoy
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be. — Robert Mapplethorpe
Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created. — Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for… — Philip Neri
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading,… — A B Simpson
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who… — Charles Dickens
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness — Aeschylus
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a… — Alexander Pope
I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. — Greg Norman
I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear… — Robert Fulghum
While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I… — Bill Cosby
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the… — Thomas Traherne
My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my… — Wendy Liebman
You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl. — Oscar Hammerstein II
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. — William Wordsworth
Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those… — Howard W. Hunter
Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first… — Carl Jung
Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and… — Howard Schultz
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity. — Jean Paul
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe… — Lafcadio Hearn
I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just… — Brian Andreas
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better… — Sonia Sotomayor
I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers… — Cesar Chavez
In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he. — Denis Diderot

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