Father Quotes

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. (Solomon)
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. View quote
George Herbert
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children. View quote
Denis Diderot
My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not. View quote
Indira Gandhi
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. View quote
Germaine Greer
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. View quote
Mark Twain
My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
She got her good looks from her father - he's a plastic surgeon. View quote
Groucho Marx
My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk. View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
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)
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. View quote
Imelda Marcos
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. View quote
Bertrand Russell
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. View quote
Spike Milligan
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. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. View quote
Robert Orben
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. View quote
Abdul Kalam
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. (Niccolò Machiavelli)
Our father who art in heaven Stay there And we will stay here on earth Which is sometimes so pretty. View quote
Jacques Prévert
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. View quote
Harper Lee
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. View quote
Gertrude Stein
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me. View quote
Laurence Sterne