Father Quotes

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Kent Nerburn

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Publilius Syrus

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Friedrich Nietzche

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.

Robert Frost

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

James Baldwin

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadsworth

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career

Sam Ewing

It is a wise child that knows his own father

Homer

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father

George Herbert

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Enid Bagnold

Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough

Wilhelm Busch

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

Billy Graham

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."

Charles Wadsworth

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.

Henry H. Tweedy