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Do not trust and depend on someone as a godfather but accept God the father of all fathers. — Osunsakin Adewale

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children. — Johann Hari

After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons. — Herodotus

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. — Confucius

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps. — Duane Chapman

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl. — Amber Heard

The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. — Willard Van Orman Quine

A daughter was a battle between fathers and boys in which the fathers fought valiantly and always lost. — Ann Patchett

Her laughter was my favorite symphony. — Avijeet Das

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself? — Augustine Of Hippo

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue. — Louise J. Kaplan

Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever. — Graeme Simsion

Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire. — Various Attributed Sources

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. — Giuseppe Mazzini

Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best. — Rainn Wilson

All we have of freedom
All we use or know
This our fathers bought for us
Long and long ago — Rudyard Kipling

When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it? — Jonathan Safran Foer

What the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand. — Larry R. Lawrence

Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too. — Steve Tisch

What is it the Bible teaches us?
rapine, cruelty, and murder. — Thomas Paine

When the sins of our fathers visit us
We do not have to play host.
We can banish them with forgiveness
As God, in his His Largeness and Laws. — August Wilson

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad. — Noel Gallagher

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. — Billy Graham

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
[News conference, April 21 1961] — John F. Kennedy

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

I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that. — Christopher Walken

I feel that the sins of the fathers should not be visited on the sons. — Cassandra Clare

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him. — Lara St. John

This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man. — Karen Thompson Walker

We are all children until our fathers die. — Melissa Bank

Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link. — Anita R. Sneed-Carter

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support. — Princess Diana

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad. — Jim DeMint

Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers. — Zoe Saldana

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution. — Viktor Yushchenko

Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic. — Phyllis Chesler

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. — John F. Kennedy

When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters. — Nancy Pelosi

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia. — Tim Robbins

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten. — Conrad Hall

Father is Everyone's First Preceptor.
Happy Father's Day! — Mohith Agadi

Fathers and daughters have a special bond.
She is always daddy's little girl. — Richard L. Ratliff

As the early church fathers delighted in saying, Christ took what was ours so that we might receive what was His. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

They had forgotten their own names, the voices of their mothers, the faces of their fathers. — Joe Hill

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result. — Emma Thompson

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. — Solomon

If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be. — Shannon L. Alder

Success has many fathers; failures have none. — Philip Caldwell

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. — Benjamin Franklin

Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a man, so why can't we see his real message? — Ravi Zacharias

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together. — Erika Cosby

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment. — Alfred Doblin

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day. — Mike Myers

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives. — Will Ferrell

Victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. — Anonymous

In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece. — Herman Melville

He creates one hundred senators, either because that number was sufficient, or because there were only one hundred who could name their fathers. They — Livy

Fathers should make you feel safe. — Karen Cushman

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. — Lord Chesterfield

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock. — Anatole Broyard

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers. — George Washington

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers. — Irving Bacheller

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame. — Solomon

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much. — Adam Johnson

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human. — Markus Zusak

All fathers who don't read like Guy Fieri. — Lauren Leto

Time and oppression are the fathers of rebellious invention. — Philip G. Zimbardo

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. — Henry David Thoreau

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it. — Philip Kerr

we revere our founding fathers precisely because they were loudmouths on the subject of freedom: Give me liberty or give me death! — Susan Cain

I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head. — Macaulay Culkin

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers — Theodore Roosevelt

In 1997, cognitive psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen found that the fathers and grandfathers of children with autism were more likely to be engineers. — Steve Silberman

Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers. — Taliesin

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men. — John Noble

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. — E. E. Cummings

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it. — Karl Kraus

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication. — Richard Louv

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. — Ron Chernow

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me. — Pat Conroy

Fathers who initiate their sons' first sexual experiences by taking them to prostitutes might as well deal them a crack pipe. — Birgit Waldschmidt

It's easy to make too much of fathers, I want to say. A — Adam Haslett

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. — Luis Bunuel

The thoughts we think in
childhood, Captain, are the fathers of the thoughts we think when we
are grown up. — Henry De Vere Stacpoole

A father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father gives all of himself that is good. — Vincent Carrella

She'll find you. Her need to know you will eventually consume her. — Stephen Douglass

I'm sure he knows you love him. All fathers know that
children sometimes say things they really don't mean. — Kerstin Gier

A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied. — John Cassian

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. — George Washington

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons. — Michael Lewis

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. — Robert A. Heinlein

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery. — Vance Havner

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons. — Croesus

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. — Miguel De Cervantes

It is a known fact that every man's heart is set on having a daughter. — Francoise Sagan

Women are not always what we seem to be. What our reputations would tell you. Nor do we only exist in reference to our fathers, husbands, and sons. — Ruth Downie

You are A MAN, not just a man; don't be diminished. Live up to your grand potential. — Richelle E. Goodrich

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. — Quintilian

Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. — Penelope Ward