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