Father Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“All right,” said Father Brown. “I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was always dangerous.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Have a father who lived up to his own promise and then found thing after thing to meet and surpass the expectations of his…

— David Foster Wallace

“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. H. Jackson Brown Jr.”

— Les Parrott III

“The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.”

— Ben Marcus

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes…

— Barack Obama

“Cannot a human man love his father, yet not believe he is a good person?”

— N.K. Jemisin

“It's such a difficult lesson to understand that someone can be wrong in theory and yet right in practice--because we want the world to…

— Imran Ahmad

“Father can be the person you most hate and most fear, yes, but deep down you expect that he'll be the one to save…

— Julianna Baggott

“My own view of Father was not nearly so high-flown or complicated. For me he was flesh and blood and until the day I…

— Peter Taylor

“A man who is raised by a misogynistic father can absorb his father's contempt for women very early in life. The boy learns that…

— Susan Forward

“You marry the one who will be a good father, not a good lay.”

— Tom Cardamone

“My own dad had given me a terrific gift: he told me, both verbally and by his behavior, that he cared only about the…

— Anonymous