Fathers Quotes

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Liberty, Nation

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy

Victory, Defeat, Thousand

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare

Children, May, Eyes

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle

Children, Mothers, Fonder

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Family, Seen

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
John James Audubon

True, Children, Knows

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.
Mitt Romney

Love, Family, God

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison

Faith, Business, Forward

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus

Peace, War, Sons

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater

Time, Equality, Liberty

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.
Ron Paul

Humble, Win, Year

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.
Barack Obama

Pain, Lost, Battle

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
Tecumseh

Heart, Country, Liberty

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo

Love, Children, Adore

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Human, Lie, Down

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Margaret Mead

Social, Accidents, Biological

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley

Wish, Rebellious, Sons

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 A. Baldwin

Father, Son, Whole

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell

Society, Children, Credit

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
Norman Schwarzkopf

War, Soldier, Means

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
Amy Heckerling

Care, Someone, Mothers

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
e. e. cummings

Time, Children, Used

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.
Tom Hiddleston

Humility, Lovers, Drama

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
Horace

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.
Colin Powell

Power, Able, Nation

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
Thomas B. Macaulay

Die, Gods, Odds

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
Augustus Y. Napier

Women, Men, Society

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

Few, Worse, Rarely

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
Joseph Sobran

Government, Far, Makes

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Good, Women, Men

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