Fathers Quotes
971 Fathers quotes by 727 unique authors
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child…
— Erica Jong
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is…
— Fanny Fern
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
— Lewis Mumford
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This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and…
— Paul Robeson
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The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and…
— David Walker
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And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's…
— Dennis Miller
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female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them…
— Thomas Jefferson
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
— Wendell Phillips
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Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!
— Louis C. K.
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.
— Lillian Hellman
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You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in…
— Wally Schirra
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The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him,…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is…
— Dave Barry
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Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created.
— Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
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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
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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
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
— August Strindberg
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Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they…
— Ronald Reagan
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When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility…
— Ronald Reagan
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Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe women in the…
— George W. Bush
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Until you have a son of your own . . . you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the…
— Kent Nerburn
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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day…
— Louis C. K.
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Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid…
— Rick Perry
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