Father Quotes - page 3

Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren. (Frederick Douglass)
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
Indra Nooyi
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
George V of the United Kingdom
I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.
Jack White
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Lee Iacocca
I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
Harpo Marx
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
My father said: You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.
J. Paul Getty
Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying ''the Son, O how unlike the Father'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.
William Blake
When my mother died, I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 'weep 'weep 'weep 'weep' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. (William Blake)
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
Rodney Dangerfield
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh
The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
Edward Young
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
Mario Cuomo
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn
I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
Francis Ford Coppola
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
Gabriel García Márquez
My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.
Jay London
As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.
George Müller
My father has always been supportive of my individuality. (Sharon Stone)
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
William Shakespeare
I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Margaret Thatcher
Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley