Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
18 more quotes from Margaret Mead
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
17 wisdom & wit from Sammy Davis, Jr.
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
2 thoughts from DeForest Kelley
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
3 more quotes from August Strindberg
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 other quotes from Edward Kennedy
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
5 quotes from Janis Joplin
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
2 thoughts from Victor Borge
But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
7 more quotes from Buffalo Bill
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
21 more thoughts from Anais Nin
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
31 views from Gertrude Stein
My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?
16 quotes from Henny Youngman
Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
3 wisdom & wit from Herbert Kaufman
My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
17 sayings from Chief Joseph
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
2 other wisdom & wit from Simon Newcomb
My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.
2 other quotes from Marc Davis
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 wisdom & wit from Chief Joseph
I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
2 other wisdom & wit from Patrick Duffy
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
7 more sayings from Gloria Swanson
The child is father of the man.
21 other quotes from William Wordsworth
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy
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 quotes from Alastair Campbell
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
13 quotes from Fred Allen
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
26 more thoughts from Harry S. Truman
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
45 quotes 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 more quotes from John Ciardi
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
15 views from Jean de La Fontaine
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
19 thoughts from E. B. White
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
45 quotes from Aldous Huxley
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
2 thoughts from Enid Bagnold
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
10 other views from Robert Mapplethorpe
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
9 more 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 quotes 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 quotes from Hedy Lamarr
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
52 more quotes from George Eliot