Father Quotes, Sayings About Dads - Page 7
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
David Gottesman
I don’t mind being a grandfather; I’ve been a mother for so many years. You just can’t believe what it’s like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.
Steven Tyler
I wasn’t really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!
Peter Fonda
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
King George V
It’s hard when your father’s the coach. Sometimes you don’t know where one leaves off and the other begins.
Pete Maravich
All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George Eliot
A Dad is your biggest fan, even when you strike out.
Anonymous
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
Robert Frost
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Joseph Addison
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Colossians
She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx
The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
Ziggy Marley
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
Jean de La Fontaine
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
Phyllis Diller
My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.
Sara Maitland
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.
William Penn
He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
Haile Gebrselassie
When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, “She’s more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.”
Helen Hayes
One of the scary things is that, when you’re a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you’re an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
David Duchovny
I would never have done what I’d done if I’d considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
Robert Mapplethorpe
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Francois Rabelais
As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.
Mike Fitzpatrick
A girl’s father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.
David Jeremiah
My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don’t ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
Johnny Cash
When dealing with a two-year-old in the midst of a tantrum, fathers need to be particularly watchful about the tendency to need to feel victorious.
Dr. Kyle Pruett
Train up a child in the way which he should go
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs
Thirteen, 13 children, and I love – I love them all. And I think I’ve been a good father to all of them.
Anthony Quinn
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler
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