Father Quotes: Celebrating the Love and Wisdom of Fathers

"My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

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

William Pennington, Politician

"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

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

Sarah Ferguson, Author

"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

"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

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

Theodore Hesburgh, Clergyman

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters"

George Herbert, Poet

"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"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

"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins"

Clara Barton, Public Servant

"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

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

Victor Borge, Musician

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

George Herbert, Poet

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

Robert Frost, Poet

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

John F. Kennedy, President

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

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

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

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

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

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father"

Emile Lahoud, Statesman

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

Greg Norman, Athlete

"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

"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

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul"

Roger McGough, Poet

"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war"

E. B. White, Writer

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

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

"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

"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

"The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

"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

"Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem"

William Petersen, Actor

"My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something"

Ryan Reynolds, Actor

"I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me"

Anne Heche, Actress

"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

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