father quotes

“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

“I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.”

— Joel Osteen

“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.”

— Joel Osteen

“How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.”

“You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.”

— Colin Powell

“All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.”

— Mitt Romney

“Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.”

— Mitt Romney

“A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.”

— Marlene Dietrich

“I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.”

— Richard Dawkins

“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.”

— Bertrand Russell

“The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”

— Bertrand Russell

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