Father Quotes

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

I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Margaret Thatcher

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
Mario Cuomo

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 ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Matthew 7:11

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

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Jean de La Fontaine

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

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
Alice Walker

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home—it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
Margaret Truman

Lucky that man
whose children make his happiness in life
and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Euripedes

My father died many years ago,
and yet when something special happens to me,
I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears,
but it makes me feel better to half believe it.
Josefowitz

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
English Proverb

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.
Anonymous

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all. and the enemy of all.
Swedish writer
J. August Strindberg

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

The greatest gift I ever had Came from God, and I call him Dad!
Anonymous

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