(1365 quotes found)
“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”
Kent Nerburn
“For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.”
Plato
“And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee.”
Dennis Miller
“Children learn to smile from their parents.”
Shinichi Suzuki
“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”
Ernest Hemingway
“Those who trust us educate us.”
T.S. Eliot
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows”
Bible
“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism”
Barry Goldwater
“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
Friedrich von Schiller
“If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied”
Rudyard Kipling
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