Father Quotes - page 2

My father was often angry when I was most like him. (Lillian Hellman)
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost! View quote
Thomas Ken
my father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. View quote
Anne Sexton
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. View quote
George Herbert
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. View quote
Giordano Bruno
What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth. View quote
Benny Hinn
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father. View quote
Denis Diderot
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
A man knows when he is growing old cuz he begins to look like his father . (Gabriel García Márquez)
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. View quote
William Shakespeare
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible. View quote
Pierre Corneille
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. View quote
Pierre Corneille
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things. View quote
Gerald Ford
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. View quote
Harry S. Truman
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. View quote
Dick Gregory
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more. View quote
Menachem Begin
I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me I was a father. View quote
Nat King Cole
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. View quote
Georges Rouault
Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen. (Kid Rock)
Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father. View quote
Sarah Michelle Gellar
If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had rather; Have a turnip than his father. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? View quote
Joseph Addison