(1365 quotes found)
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
William Shakespeare
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence B. Kelland
“Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad”
Proverb
“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”
Gloria Naylor
“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
Oscar Wilde
“Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.”
Amy Heckerling
“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”