Fathers Quotes

When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...

It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a des...

I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I ...

It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in ...

It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in ...

It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in ...

It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in ...

Neither father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither looking away nor ...

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be ...

At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speak...

There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to...

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is...

I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he'd ever ...

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daug...

America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Child...

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't ...

They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ...

I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And...

Both man and woman have their own parts to play in bringing faith to the next generation, and the wo...

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even...

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she ne...

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father...

There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for th...

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't reall...

If you ever have a daughter—a blessing I wouldn't wish on anyone, because it's Murphy's Law that soo...

Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humo...

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens th...

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imper...

Papi, I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter what I do, Pilar hates me....

I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies,...

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude toward one’s f...

Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her--and you. ... And...

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and sufferin...

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age ...

My mother phones daily to ask "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no she adds "So if yo...

Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the qu...

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

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to mea...

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on...

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now thin...

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because the...

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M...

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his ...