fatherhood
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
2 more quotes from Enid Bagnold
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
103 more wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
52 quotes from George Eliot
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
10 other quotes from Robert Mapplethorpe
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
9 quotes from Pope John XXIII
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
10 other sayings from Robert Mapplethorpe
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
14 more views from Hedy Lamarr
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
17 wisdom & wit from Sammy Davis, Jr.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
18 quotes from Margaret Mead
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
2 other quotes from DeForest Kelley
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
3 wisdom & wit from August Strindberg
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
2 quotes from Victor Borge
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
3 wisdom & wit from Edward Kennedy
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
5 other sayings from Janis Joplin
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
21 thoughts from Anais Nin
But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
7 quotes from Buffalo Bill
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
31 wisdom & wit from Gertrude Stein
I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
2 wisdom & wit from Patrick Duffy
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
7 quotes from Gloria Swanson
Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
3 more thoughts from Herbert Kaufman
My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
17 more sayings from Chief Joseph
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
2 wisdom & wit from Simon Newcomb
My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.
2 more views from Marc Davis
My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?
16 more quotes from Henny Youngman
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
17 more wisdom & wit from Chief Joseph
The child is father of the man.
21 other sayings from William Wordsworth
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
26 more views from Harry S. Truman
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
13 other views from Fred Allen
My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
5 views from Alastair Campbell
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
45 more sayings from Bertrand Russell
My father was never anti-anything in our house.
2 quotes from Errol Flynn
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
6 quotes from John Ciardi
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
45 other quotes from Aldous Huxley
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
19 views from E. B. White
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
15 other quotes from Jean de La Fontaine