Fathers Quotes

971 Fathers quotes by 727 unique authors

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. — Amy Heckerling
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. — Ernest Hemingway
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. — George Herbert
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. — Theodore Hesburgh
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings… — Tom Hiddleston
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. — Homer
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. — Victor Hugo
Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country. — Jane D. Hull
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. — Aldous Huxley
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. — Aldous Huxley
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or… — T.D. Jakes
And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father. — Angelina Jolie
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family… — James Earl Jones
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. — Clarence Budington Kelland
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. — John F. Kennedy
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're… — Harmon Killebrew
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government… — Steve King
What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because… — Mark Levin
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that… — Abraham Lincoln
The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people… — Rush Limbaugh
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? — Thomas B. Macaulay
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were… — Jon Meacham
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. — Margaret Mead
If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know,… — Michael Moore

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