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Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.
— Lord Chesterfield
What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
— Sophocles
Negativism in two-year-olds is a normal step of development, one way the child begins to separate psychologically from his mother or father.
— Gary Chapman
As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.
— Gresham Barrett
Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.
— Charles Bukowski
You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.
— G.K. Chesterton
There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.
— Sheri L. Dew
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
— James Joyce
My father was fond of saying 'If you own too many possessions sooner or later they start owning you.
— Claire Fuller
My father tolerated no dramatics of any kind. I'm not certain which is more devilish uncomfortable - too many emotions or none at all.
— Ashley Gardner
It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.
— Richard L. Evans
Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs
Q. When is rape not rape?
A. When it is your father or stepfather. — S. Caroline Taylor
Q. When is rape not rape?
A. When it is your father or stepfather. — S. Caroline Taylor
Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.
— Jeane Westin
Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.
— Elizabeth Enright
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
— Saint John Chrysostom
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
— Barbra Streisand
For a while a person is a junkie and a bartender or a junkie and a father or a junkie and a thief, but after a while he's just a junkie.
— Daniel Polansky
My father had slowed down playing a little ... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up.
— David Edwards
AND WHATEVER YOU DO, WHETHER IN WORD OR DEED, DO IT ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, GIVING THANKS TO GOD THE FATHER THROUGH HIM. COLOSSIANS 3:17
— Sandra Kristen Moore
Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.
— Alan Shearer
Sieh was a horrible father and a wretched friend and a barely competent employee, completely unworthy of being missed or mourned.
— N.K. Jemisin
But why, in God the Father's name, should they want to destroy Athos? Is Cetaganda - controlled by women or something?" A
— Lois McMaster Bujold
(On being asked if he preferred to be a rock god or sex god) I am neither. My favourite role is father.
— Lenny Kravitz
I wonder if my kidnappers know who my father was in Haiti, or if they know what powers they are dealing with.
— Marc Ashton
I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.
— Ben Stein
You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.
— Abraham Lincoln
We sat on the floor for dinner. Ananya's father passed me a banana leaf. I wondered if i had to eat it or wipe my hands with it.
— Chetan Bhagat
Word of advice for any young man that might want to take out Malia or Sasha Obama - Their father can order an assassination, don't piss him off.
— David C. Holley
I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
— Adam Sandler
I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.
— Dominique Moceanu
His wives had discovered early on what a poor or frightening prospect of a father he presented and they had protected themselves and got out.
— Ian McEwan
I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.
— Kiefer Sutherland
Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.
— Syesha Mercado
Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Neither my father nor grandfather could put dates to their stories. Not because they had forgotten or were confused; the past was simply the past.
— V.S. Naipaul
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness (Proverbs 20:20).
— Stormie O'martian
I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'
— Peter Mullan
My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate.
— Stephanie McMahon
17Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.
— Anonymous
Father always said that it didn't matter what you looked like or what you wear. It was who you were that mattered.
— Sarah Dalton
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
— Richard Diebenkorn
What's wrong with your father? Huh? Can't he do this? Or have you been reading Freud? WARD, have you been reading the baby Freud?
— Benjamin R. Smith
The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence - Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.
— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
— A. N. Wilson
As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.
— Michael J. Fox
Judy Collins sings about in "The Blizzard," or read Alice Walker's essay "My Father's Country Is the Poor." Each
— Gloria Steinem
It doesn't matter what you've done or seen. Every man's a child until he's a father. It's the way the world's made.
— Daniel Abraham
Our fellowship with our Father must not be restricted in any manner to a church, room or building.
— Sunday Adelaja
The wind - or maybe Keefe - must've thrown back his father's hood. But it wasn't his father facing him. It was Lady Gisela. Keefe's mom.
— Shannon Messenger
Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
— Robert Jordan
Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.
— Hulk Hogan
It's his voice that I remember, certainly: my father's voice, low and slow, how he would chuckle sometimes or laugh outright.
— Stephen King
Do I look like a sex-symbol or a pin-up boy? It's just that my father presented me like a dream.
— Hrithik Roshan
Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.
— Laurence Steinberg
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
— Alexander Pope
Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death.
— Kathleen Kennedy
I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
— Lane Garrison
1266What matters to the children's well-being isn't so much the level of the family's wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or the father.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.
— Zoe Saldana
How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role,
But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old. — Big Daddy Kane
But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old. — Big Daddy Kane
Shit or get off the pot."
"Shit or get off the pot? I was paying $250 an hour for advice my father gave me in third grade. — Penelope Ward
"Shit or get off the pot? I was paying $250 an hour for advice my father gave me in third grade. — Penelope Ward
Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.
— Richard Cecil
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.
— Amy Chan
He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.
— Shaquille O'Neal
When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.
— Andre Rieu
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
— Freya Stark
I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.
— Jose Rizal
When an answer finally comes to me, I know I've completely lost all my wits - or as my mama used to tell my father, I have a few screws loose.
— Brandy Nacole
Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.
— Bruce Feiler
My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.
— Alexandra Stoddard
But sometimes I wanted to feel like a child, to know that he would stand in front of me while waves crashed towards us or arrows come at us.
— Belinda Jeffrey
Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months.
— Justin Trudeau
Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it.
— Richard Dawkins
Jesus Christ is the way of gaining a father, the path of a pure and righteous life without fornication, lust or adultery
— Sunday Adelaja
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes ...
— Barack Obama
And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my brothers more?
I love you like the little bird
That picks up crumbs around the door. — William Blake
Or any of my brothers more?
I love you like the little bird
That picks up crumbs around the door. — William Blake
In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might,
Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight. — George MacDonald
Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight. — George MacDonald
I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father was a mediator, a bridge maker. I am a grave maker.
— J.R. Ward
You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.
— William, Saroyan
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
— Billie Jean King
It had been a wake-up call and now all she wanted was to keep her dad in sight and make sure he didn't eat too many Mars Bars or drink too much beer.
— Vicky Pattison
I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it's just not normally from morning to afternoon.
— Kate Beckinsale
Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac?
— Thomm Quackenbush
Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.
— Phyllis Chesler
It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.
— Don Williams
You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.
— Kim Edwards
What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.
— Steven Furtick