Father Quote by Mary Stewart

“At one point in life, every son would look back at his father and think. I am not just like him, I am him.”

— Midhun Jackson

“He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I didn’t want anyone else to know, least of all my father, who couldn’t possibly understand.”

— Alex Newman

“By the time a man realises that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he is wrong.”

— Charles Wadsworth

“Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his own child.”

— William Shakespeare

“Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then,…

— Donald Barthelme

“Dad had always told him to make an effort to learn about something before making his own decisions, not to simply believe what he…

— Jeremy Laszlo

“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I was never good at telling intelligent people from mere self-confident fools, the know-it-alls, because I didn’t and couldn’t know, growing up, that, of…

— Mikhail Iossel

“We thought we knew everything about him. But that's not how life is. When all's said and done, we can never truly know one…

— Carsten Jensen

“The truth is that if my father weren't my father, he would be one of the men he hates; he is incorrigibly faithless and…

— Nora Ephron

“I'm telling you all of this because I'll never be your father, and you will always be my child.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer