Father Quotes

7648 Father quotes by 4179 unique authors

I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends! — Unknown Author
It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the… — Robert Breault
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband.… — Lillian Gish
Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like… — Louisa May Alcott
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. — David Rockefeller
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it… — Angela Carter
I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.... — Frederick Douglass
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to… — Ayn Rand
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none… — Thomas Szasz
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this. — Ron Paul
The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede… — Barack Obama
We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If… — Calvin Coolidge
Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a… — Timothy Keller
Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God… — J I Packer
I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion… — Galileo Galilei
[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of… — Luis Walter Alvarez
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.… — Abraham Lincoln
Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his… — Abraham Lincoln
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in… — Abraham Lincoln
Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than a right of… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering. — Richard Dawkins
Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable. — H. L. Mencken
Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and… — Wernher von Braun
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood… — Bharati Mukherjee
Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind. — Tryon Edwards

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