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