Fathers Quotes

Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.

If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

My dad used to say 'Always fight fire with fire,' which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day.

He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really.

What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.