Quotes About Fathers
2. When one has not had a good father, one must create one. - Friedrich Nietzsche
3. My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him. - Eminem
4. I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much. - Hedy Lamarr
5. Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. - Friedrich Nietzsche
6. I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father. - Joel Osteen
7. I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. - Anais Nin
8. I just wish I could understand my father. - Michael Jackson
9. I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him. - Halle Berry
10. Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. - Margaret Mead
11. Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. - Aldous Huxley
12. The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. - Bertrand Russell
13. My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. - Beau Bridges
14. The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. - Bertrand Russell
15. I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. - Imelda Marcos
16. Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. - John Ciardi
17. Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. - Amy Heckerling
18. A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. - Frank A. Clark
19. All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. - George Eliot
20. Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. - Horace
21. 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
22. A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. - Enid Bagnold
23. It is much easier to become a father than to be one. - Kent Nerburn
24. There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. - Dean Koontz
25. My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. - Harry S. Truman
26. I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. - Orson Scott Card
27. The child is father of the man. - William Wordsworth
28. My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people. - Chief Joseph
29. Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. - William Hurt
30. Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted. - Michael Reagan
31. An angry father is most cruel towards himself. - Publilius Syrus
32. There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. - Gertrude Stein
33. The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. - E. B. White
34. My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. - Pete Rose
35. 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
36. I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy. - Barry White
37. Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works. - Shahrukh Khan
38. Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? - Dick Clark
39. It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. - Jean de La Fontaine
40. A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad. - Lenny Kravitz
41. A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool. - Michael Bergin
42. It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. - Dawn French
43. But the love of adventure was in father's blood. - Buffalo Bill
44. I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed. - Billie Joe Armstrong
45. My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. - Fred Allen
46. I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect. - Adam Sandler
47. I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out. - Jay London
48. My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house. - Janis Joplin
49. The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world. - Christopher Meloni
50. I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do. - Miguel Indurain
51. The most important influence in my childhood was my father. - DeForest Kelley
52. My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker. - Anthony Hopkins
53. My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this. - Jeff Foxworthy
54. Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle. - Adam Sandler
55. I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set. - John Malkovich
56. I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it. - Sammy Davis, Jr.
57. Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful. - Cindy Crawford
58. Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything. - Oliver Hudson
59. If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now. - Ray Romano
60. What harsh judges fathers are to all young men! - Terence
61. My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem. - Gwyneth Paltrow
62. My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be. - Robert Mapplethorpe
63. I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. - Robert Mapplethorpe
64. Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. - Sam Ewing
65. 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
66. My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone. - Damon Wayans
67. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. - David Rockefeller
68. I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship. - Harrison Ford
69. I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office. - Harrison Ford
70. That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. - August Strindberg
71. As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. - Gloria Swanson
72. I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic. - Diane Lane
73. As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me. - Christine Keeler
74. Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me? - Dionne Warwick
75. Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table. - James Levine
76. I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him. - Liv Tyler
77. Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. - Sean Penn
78. Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill. - Michael Reagan
79. No, I never thought about my father's money as my money. - Christie Hefner
80. 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
81. I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father. - Annette Funicello
82. My father was never anti-anything in our house. - Errol Flynn
83. Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them. - Angela Carter
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