Father Quote by James Boswell

The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.

— John Walter Bratton

A father's authority is limited to his own family.

— John MacArthur

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

— Stevie Wonder

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a…

— Robert Creeley

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of…

— Julian Fellowes

My father used to say I would inherit his house but not his seat.

— Ali Bongo Ondimba

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to…

— Thomas Paine

I was deliberately trying to express how possible it might be for unmarried men and adults not blessed with biological children to become "fathers…

— Mamoru Hosoda

I have inherited my father's responsibilities, not privileges. One of the members of his family had to continue his legacy of social responsibility.

— Naveen Patnaik

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down…

— Wilbur Smith

above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth…

— Aristotle