Father Quotes

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Alexander Pope

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.

Queen Victoria

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Euripides

Noble fathers have noble children.

Euripides

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

Terence

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.

Phyllis McGinley

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

Jodi Picoult

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

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Joseph Addison

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

George Bernard Shaw

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Sigmund Freud

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

Source Unknown

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

Lord Chesterfield

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

William Penn

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

Oscar Wilde

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

Jodi Picoult

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

Leo Tolstoy