Father Quotes, Sayings About Dads - Page 2



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

That is the thankless position of the father in the family — the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
J. August Strindberg

A father’s disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
Michael Bergin

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

He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you’re at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.
Martina Hingis

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
Wynton Marsalis

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
Orson Scott Card

Fathers are angels sent from heaven.
Anonymous

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Margaret Mead

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

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain

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

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
Red Auerbach

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides

Noble fathers have noble children.
Euripides

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

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White

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

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
William Hurt

The child is father of the man.
William Wordsworth

I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
Liza Minelli

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

My father, a good man, told me, “Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it.
Anonymous

There’s really no point in having children if you’re not going to be home enough to father them.
Anthony Edwards

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

Father! – to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
William Wordsworth

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Anonymous

To her the name of father was another name for love.
Fanny Fern

Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.
Victoria Secunda

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