Quotations About Fathers
Related: Family, Parents, Mothers
Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.
Victoria Secunda
Women and Their Fathers, 1992
Women and Their Fathers, 1992
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp
The Naked Civil Servant, 1968
The Naked Civil Servant, 1968
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Lydia M. Child
Philothea: A Romance, 1836
Philothea: A Romance, 1836
One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.
George Herbert
Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.
Louise J. Kaplan
Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978
Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
New York Times, 26 August 1971
New York Times, 26 August 1971
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Kent Nerburn
Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994
Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994
Come little babe, come silly soul, Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,
Nicholas Breton
Come, little babe, come, silly soul
Come, little babe, come, silly soul
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton
"Anatomy of Melancholy," Democritus to the Reader, 1621
"Anatomy of Melancholy," Democritus to the Reader, 1621
Tiger father begets tiger son.
Chinese Proverb
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Joseph Joubert
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Friedrich von Schiller
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Bagnold
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
George Herbert
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Ruth E. Renkel
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I love my father as the stars ΓΆ€” he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.
Terri Guillemets
My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.
Hank Williams, Jr.
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
Russian Proverb
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L.L. Hendren
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Gloria Naylor
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
William Wordsworth