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