father quotes

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ”

“I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.”

— Dean Acheson

“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

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. ”

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”

“It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers”

— Aldous Huxley

“Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.”

— Victor Hugo

“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”

— Victor Hugo

“It is a wise father that knows his own child. ”

— William Shakespeare

“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”

— William Shakespeare

“I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.”

— William Shakespeare

“It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him. ”

“I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.”

“My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world. ”

“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“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.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.”

— Groucho Marx

“Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.”

— Steve Martin

“The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.”

“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”

“I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.”

— Barack Obama

“My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.”

— Marilyn Manson

“A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.”

— Michelle Obama

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