Quote: A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. Author: Enid Bagnold 1889-1981, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. [Ephesians 6:4] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. Author: Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author
Quote: Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! Author: Lydia M. Child 1802-1880, American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor
Quote: The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. Author: Bill Cosby 1937-, American Actor, Comedian, Producer
Quote: You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together. Author: Erika Cosby
Quote: Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee. Author: Margaret Courtney
Quote: I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. Author: Mario Cuomo
Quote: What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. Author: Mary Mapes Dodge
Quote: Noble fathers have noble children. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Author: Sigmund Freud 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
Quote: To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. Author: Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961, American Writer
Quote: One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. Author: George Herbert 1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Author: Theodore M. Hesburgh 1917-, American Clergyman, University President
Quote: There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, ''Our Father Who Art in Heaven.'' Author: Douglas Macarthur 1880-1964, American Army General in WW II
Quote: A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1928-, Colombian Writer
Quote: The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get. Author: Phyllis Mcginley 1905-1978, American Poet, Author
Quote: Don't make a baby if you can't be a father. Author: National Urban League Slogan
Quote: When one has not had a good father, one must create one. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. Author: Anais Nin 1914-1977, French-born American Novelist, Dancer
Quote: The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. Author: Austin O'Malley
Quote: He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. Author: William Penn 1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania
Quote: Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. Author: William Penn 1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania
Quote: A father is a banker provided by nature. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. Author: Anne Sexton 1928-1974, American Poet
Quote: It is a wise father that knows his own child. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist
Quote: That is the thankless position of the father in the family -- the provider for all, and the enemy of all. Author: J. August Strindberg 1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist, Novelist, Poet
Quote: An angry father is most cruel toward himself. Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer
Quote: What harsh judges fathers are to all young men! Author: Terence BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies
Quote: One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal. Author: Queen Victoria 1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain
Quote: It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. Author: Alice Walker 1944-, American Author, Critic
Quote: Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: A father is a guy who has snapshots where his money sued to be. Author: Anonymous
Quote: The greatest gift I ever had Came from God, and I call him Dad! Author: Anonymous
Quote: Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! Author: Lydia M. Child
Quote: One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. Author: English Proverb
Quote: A father is a banker provided by nature. Author: French Proverb
Quote: It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. Author: Anne Sexton
Quote: I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Author: Sigmund Freud
Quote: Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys. Author: Anonymous
Quote: A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be. Author: Anonymous
Quote: To her the name of father was another name for love. Author: Fanny Fern
Quote: If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. Author: Bill Cosby
Quote: Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee. Author: Margaret Courtney
Quote: I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. Author: Mario Cuomo
Quote: Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. Author: Euripedes
Quote: I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Author: Sigmund Freud
Quote: An angry father is most cruel towards himself. Author: Publilius Syrus
Quote: For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. Author: Homer
Quote: When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, 'She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge. Author: Helen Hayes
Quote: It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home—it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. Author: Margaret Truman
Quote: When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course. Author: Sir Stephen Spender
Quote: I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. Author: Margaret Thatcher
Quote: A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma. Author: Marlene Dietrich
Quote: My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it. Author: Josefowitz
Quote: Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. Author: Anonymous
Quote: A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. Author: Anonymous
Quote: A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. Author: Enid Bagnold
Quote: A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be. Author: Carol Coats
Quote: The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. Author: Confucius
Quote: Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. Author: Bill Cosby
Quote: You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together. Author: Erika Cosby
Quote: It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Quote: How true Daddy's words were when he said: All children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. Author: Anne Frank
Quote: A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Quote: Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development. Author: David Gottesman
Quote: To be a successful father...there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. Author: Ernest Hemingway
Quote: It is much easier to become a father than to be one. Author: Kent Nerburn
Quote: He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. Author: William Penn
Quote: None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal. Author: Queen Victoria of England
Quote: When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. Author: Mark Twain
Quote: It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. Author: Alice Walker
Quote: The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Quote: Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. The Bonfire of the Vanities Author: Tom Wolfe
Quote: The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance. Author: Benjamin Franklin
Quote: A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world. Author: Helen Rowland
Quote: That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all. and the enemy of all. Swedish writer Author: J. August Strindberg
Quote: There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. Author: Victor Hugo
Quote: When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. Author: Jewish Proverb
Quote: It is a wise father that knows his own child. Author: William Shakespeare