Father Quotes: Celebrating the Love and Wisdom of Fathers

"Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls"

"Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes"

Prince Charles, Royalty

"He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex"

Sarah Ferguson, Author

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"It is a wise father that knows his own child"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters"

George Herbert, Poet

"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat"

Robert Frost, Poet

"I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light"

Michael Servetus, Scientist

"Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived"

Harper Lee, Novelist

"I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage"

Bede Griffiths, Clergyman

"But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats"

Joe Davis, Celebrity

"On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers"

Immanuel Velikovsky, Historian

"When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years"

Frank Butler

"One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father"

George Herbert, Poet

"Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now"

John F. Kennedy, President

"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings"

Jay London, Comedian

"My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent"

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

"My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing"

John Dyer, Artist

"The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people"

William Robertson Smith, Scientist

"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it"

Victor Borge, Musician

"So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern"

Anais Nin, Author

"Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red"

Method Man, Musician

"I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother"

Theodore Hesburgh, Clergyman

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