FATHER QUOTES

• Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children
  ~ Mary Howitt ~
• You are a good father only if your children are proud of you.
  ~ Bernard Gabriel Okurut ~
• Wait until you get married to the queen of your heart, then you will understand why your father treats your mother the way he does.
  ~ Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke ~
• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
  ~ Homer ~
• My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
  ~ Jorge Luis Borges ~
• Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
  ~ Homer ~
• Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
  ~ Rudyard Kipling ~
• Fatherhood is the silent language of love, spoken through actions louder than words —the unspoken gestures and care, the tireless efforts and sacrifices, and the unwavering support and guidance.
  ~ Aloo Denish Obiero ~
• There are two kinds of people in the world, those who are from God and those who are from the devil. The works of a person tells who his or her father is.
  ~ Marlon Pitter ~
• Ah-Deen Historical Men Ma-love in his ruthless captain's, spirit right hand explained wrong side expelled in range and stain of a Godfather's sleepless night, convey to Goodwill and not exclamation.
  ~ Magod Scroef ~
• We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
  ~ Lawrence Welk ~
• I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?
  ~ Curt Schilling ~
• When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.
  ~ Julie Andrews ~
• I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.
  ~ Muhammad Yunus ~
• My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
  ~ Rita Dove ~
• Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
  ~ John Malkovich ~
• 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 ~
• A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
  ~ Pierre Corneille ~
• To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
  ~ Wendell Phillips ~
• When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
  ~ Dick Gregory ~
• When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
  ~ Dick Gregory ~
• When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
  ~ Dick Gregory ~
• The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.
  ~ David Miliband ~
• Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
  ~ Joseph Joubert ~
• Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
  ~ Joseph Joubert ~
• We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
  ~ Meister Eckhart ~
• We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.
  ~ Mira Nair ~
• Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.
  ~ Roberto Cavalli ~
• It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.
  ~ Francois Rabelais ~
• It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.
  ~ Francois Rabelais ~
• I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
  ~ James Hillman ~
• My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.
  ~ Patti Smith ~
• 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 ~
• I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.
  ~ Rupert Murdoch ~
• I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
  ~ Rupert Murdoch ~
• In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.
  ~ Tim Allen ~
• I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
  ~ Harrison Ford ~
• I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
  ~ Harrison Ford ~
• My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
  ~ Anthony Hopkins ~
• The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
  ~ Warren Farrell ~
• The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
  ~ Warren Farrell ~
• But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
  ~ Javier Bardem ~
• The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
  ~ Ethan Hawke ~
• The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
  ~ Ethan Hawke ~
• My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
  ~ Fred Allen ~
• I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
  ~ Charles Kuralt ~
• When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
  ~ Charles Kuralt ~
• My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
  ~ Charles Kuralt ~
• I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
  ~ Denzel Washington ~
• I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
  ~ Jesus Christ ~
• But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
  ~ Jesus Christ ~
• But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
  ~ Jesus Christ ~
• A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
  ~ Norman Schwarzkopf ~
• I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.
  ~ Jenna Bush ~
• I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.
  ~ Jenna Bush ~
• I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.
  ~ Jenna Bush ~
• My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
  ~ Mike Myers ~
• I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.
  ~ Mike Myers ~
• My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.
  ~ Michael Haneke ~
• It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.
  ~ Michael Haneke ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
  ~ Gwyneth Paltrow ~
• My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
  ~ Gwyneth Paltrow ~
• My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
  ~ Gwyneth Paltrow ~
• My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
  ~ Ernest Istook ~
• It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.
  ~ Novak Djokovic ~
• My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.
  ~ Novak Djokovic ~
• My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.
  ~ Novak Djokovic ~
• I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
  ~ Ralph Nader ~
• Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.
  ~ Shahrukh Khan ~
• My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
  ~ Haruki Murakami ~
• I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
  ~ Haruki Murakami ~
• My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.
  ~ Donny Osmond ~
• 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.
  ~ William Penn ~
• Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
  ~ Mary Wollstonecraft ~
• I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'
  ~ Larry Hagman ~
• I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.
  ~ Lindsay Lohan ~
• Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.
  ~ Herman Cain ~
• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
  ~ Imelda Marcos ~
• The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.
  ~ Imelda Marcos ~
• 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 ~
• My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.
  ~ Gordon Ramsay ~
• I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
  ~ Barbra Streisand ~
• Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
  ~ Barbra Streisand ~
• Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
  ~ Barbra Streisand ~
• Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
  ~ Ted Nugent ~
• I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
  ~ David Hockney ~
• I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'
  ~ Sara Blakely ~
• I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'
  ~ Sara Blakely ~
• Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.
  ~ Jane Smiley ~