Fathers Quotes

971 Fathers quotes by 727 unique authors

Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind. — Mike Harding
I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death. — Unknown Author
While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases… — Athanasius of Alexandria
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons. — Herodotus
Success has many fathers; failures have none. — Philip Caldwell
The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it. — Christine Keeler
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. — Luis Bunuel
A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and we blew it.… — Unknown Author
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time… — Marin Mersenne
Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too. — Steve Tisch
It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I… — Meg Tilly
When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and… — Ziauddin Yousafzai
Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange… — Walter Benjamin
The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for… — William Temple
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace.....Treat all men alike. Give them all the same… — Chief Joseph
Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers. — Herbert Kaufman
A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father… — Sarah Ruhl
Father of fathers, make me one, A fit example for a son. — Douglas Malloch
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores. — Geoffrey Madan
Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had. — Aristotle
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. — Alexander Pope
O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents! — William Shakespeare
Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's. — Paul Harvey

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