Fathers Quotes

971 Fathers quotes by 727 unique authors

There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves… — Max Stirner
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living… — John Wooden
Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the… — Hilary Mantel
I’ll have your fathers make something special,” Holly said serenely. “If it turns out we don’t like him, I’ll cook the next meal for him. — Maya Banks
They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know… — George R. R. Martin
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. — Friedrich Schiller
No love is greater than that of a father for His son. — Dan Brown
It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country. — Stephen Colbert
Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. — Hillary Clinton
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much. — Adam Johnson
Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my… — Chief Joseph
A man of the Night's Watch lives his life for the realm. Not for a king, nor a lord, nor the honor of this house… — George R. R. Martin
Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would… — Peter Carey
Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced… — Miranda July
And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one… — Anne Sexton
Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then… — Carlo Collodi
Never! Never, Marge. I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles. Sure,… — Matt Groening
The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there… — Flannery O'Connor
Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the… — George R. R. Martin
Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their… — Cheryl Strayed
Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to… — Charles Spurgeon
Fathers and mothers,” she found herself saying, “leave their mark, no matter if we’ve known them a lifetime or only a day. — Nalini Singh
Hug your children...Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the… — Seth Grahame-Smith
A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers. — Kazuo Koike
We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was… — Jay-Z

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