Abraham LincolnI don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Father taught me to work; he didn't teach me to love it.
Adrian A. JeresanoMy father may not be perfect, but he's doing what he does best, being my dad.
AeschylusHonour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
Al Unser, Jr.Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.
Alan ValentineFor thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.
Alexander the GreatI am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Anjaneth Garcia UntalanThe greatest thing a FATHER can do to his children, is to love their mother.
Anne GeddesAny man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.
Anne SextonIt doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Bartrand HubbardI've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.
Bill CosbyA new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
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.
Carroll O'ConnorPeople see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.
Chae RichardsonIn times of trouble you can count on your self. In times of desaster you can count on your friends. In times of sorrow you can count on your Father.
Charles WadsworthBy the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Clarence Budington KellandMy father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Dante HallI would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
David M. GottesmanFathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
Demitri The StoneheartA Father dosen't tell you that he loves you. He shows you.
Dexter Scott KingMy father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'
Elbert HubbardMy father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.
Enid BagnoldA father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
EuripedesLucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Exodus 20:12Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.I'm always going to love my father.
French ProverbA father is a banker provided by nature.
Friedrich NietzcheLove matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
George HerbertOne father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Gordon BrownI'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
Helen HayesWhen 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.
HomerFor rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
J. August StrindbergThat is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
Jamsta QuotesA Dad is someone who wants to catch you before you fall, but instead picks you up and brushes you off, and lets you try again.
Jerry LewisWhen I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.
Jim FoxMy father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'
Jim ValvanoMy father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
John F. KennedyMy father told me that all businessmen were sons-of-bitches, but I never believed him until now.
John MayorFathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.
Kid RockBeing a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
Linda PoindexterA father is someone who is proud to see you get your first car....but secretly wishes it had no keys.
There was this guy who always thought I was special. It's been years since I have seen him, but I still remember his name. It was Dad.
Your father gives you many things in a lifetime.....most of which you will not appreciate until way after he is gone.
Louis AdamicMy grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Louisa May AlcottFather asked us what was God's noblest work. I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Lydia M. ChildBlessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Margaret CourtneyBe kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee.
Margaret ThatcherI 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 TrumanIt'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