Quotes of Father - somelinesforyou

“ I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. ”

- Greg Norman

“ You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. ”

- Anne Geddes

“ Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. ”

- Bible

“ My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government — he promised Dad he'd go straight. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. ”

- George Herbert

“ And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments. ”

- Bible

“ In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

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

- Homer

“ It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. ”

- Chauncey Depew

“ Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven. ”

- The Holy Bible

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

- William Shakespeare

“ His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. ”

- John Marquand

“ If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ 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

“ One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be. ”

- Unknown

“ The affection of a father and a son are different: The father loves the person of the son, and the son loves the memory of his father. ”

- Unknown

“ Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'. ”

- Cary Grant

“ All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ”

- George Eliot

“ All we have of freedom — all we use or know — This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead. ”

- Bible

“ My mom is definitely my rock. ”

- Alicia Keys

“ Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are. ”

- Angelina Jolie

“ My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage. ”

- Patrick White
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