Fathers Quotes

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.

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

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

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

Have you seen the Olympic uniforms? It's for the American Olympic team and it's berets. To me, nothing says America like a guy in a beret. Look at our founding fathers, they all wore berets.

You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it.

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're a regular guy.

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe.

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

I'm probably the most uncool guy that [my daughters] know-as far as they are concerned anyway-'cause I'm Dad. I mean dads just aren't cool-especially when I dance! They don't want me to dance.

In times of trouble you can count on your self. In times of disaster you can count on your friends. In times of sorrow you can count on your Father.

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

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

When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

My mother phones daily to ask "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no she adds "So if you're not too busy call me while I'm still alive " . . . and hangs up.

Every child grows up thinking their father is a hero or villain until they are old enough to realize that he is just a man

Count your blessings take care of the people you love.'Happy father's day to all the greatest POP, DAD, KIN in the world.

Father always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees either.

Fathers and daughters have a special bond. She is always daddy's little girl.

I wish you a beautiful blessed Father’s Day.

Help your fatherAs he ages And loses his strengthFor it was he who sheltered youAnd protected you from the stormsKhoiSan Book of Wisdom

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.

The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows.

Father is Everyone's First Preceptor.Happy Father's Day!

A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.

A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die.

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father, " she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude toward one’s father largely shaped one’s attitude toward God.

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Give me liberty or give me death.".]

I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.