Father Quotes

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore Hesburgh

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

William Shakespeare

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Clarence Budington Kelland

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Homer

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Johann Schiller

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Confucius

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development

David M. Gottesman

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Pope John XXIII

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

Charles Wadsworth

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

David Gottesman

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

Charles Wadsworth

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

Enid Bagnold

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

Sigmund Freud

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

George Herbert

It is a wise child that knows his own father

Homer

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

Sam Ewing

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Margaret Mead

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Charles Wadsworth

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye

Margaret Atwood

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Austin O\'Malley

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

Robert Frost

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

Friedrich Nietzche

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