Father Quotes

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Abdul Kalam

Teacher, Beautiful, Mother

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim Valvano

Greatest, Person, Give

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

Laugh, Son, Cry

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

Love, Mother, Children

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn

Change, School, Yourself

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

Wise, Child, Knows

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

Children, Real, Easier

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus Christ

Love, Good, Rain

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

Strong, Cannot, Childhood

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

Home, Sadness, Tomorrow

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

May, Living, Dead

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?
LeBron James

Good, Morning, Successful

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

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx

Her, She, Looks

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'
Michael Jordan

Try, Said, Wanted

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving

Love, Mother, May

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
Eminem

Him, Picture, Knew

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
Bill Cosby

Children, Nothing, Done

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
Hedy Lamarr

Loved, Equal, Ashamed

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost

Mother, Son, Republican

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost

Love, Mother, Deserve

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.
Marilyn Monroe

Different, House, Felt

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Whoever, Procure

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

Love, Mother, Illusion

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

Peace, Wife, Friend

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.
Eminem

Confidence, Give, Advice

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
Will Smith

Black, Friends, Negative

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Bill Cosby

Child, Times, Company

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
Will Rogers

Him, After, Seeing

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Voltaire

Child, Sit, Shadow

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