Father Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“I’m always going to love my father.”
– Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”
– Frank A. Clark

“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
– Friedrich von Schiller

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
– Gabriel García Márquez

“I’m a father; that’s what matters most. Nothing matters more.”
– Gordon Brown

“She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.”
– Groucho Marx

“Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.”
– Habeeb Akande

“I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.”
– Halle Berry

“My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.”
– Hank Williams, Jr.

“This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments – and you get the tears at the end, too.”
– Harlan Coben

“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass’; ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.’”
– Harmon Killebrew

“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”
– Harper Lee

“Now you look here. All your father ever dreamed of for you was to do something you loved in life. He didn’t care about fancy qualifications or fancy clothes or cars, just that you were both happy and fulfilled. He was so excited about your dreams for a career.”
– Hazel Gaynor

“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.”
– Hedy Lamarr

“The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children‘s teeth are set on edge.”
– Holy Bible

“Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don’t get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don’t have to do as much, like you don’t go on as many outings.”
– Hugh Jackman

“I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.”
– Ice Cube

“I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.”
– Imelda Marcos

“That is the thankless position of the father in the family: the provider for all, and the enemy of all.”
– J. August Strindberg

“If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.”
– James A. Baldwin

“I’m 30-years-old, and I still can’t get out from under my father’s shadow. He’s really tall, so maybe I’ll just ask him to move over a few feet.”
– Jarod Kintz

“The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.”
– Jean Paul Richter

“What I learned most from my father wasn’t anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.”
– Jeff Bridges

“If I’m going for advice for anything in my life, I go straight to my father because he has the answers.”
– Jessica Simpson

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
– Jim Valvano

“I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father’s waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.”
– Jodi Picoult

“When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.”
– Jodi Picoult

“Except for the title ‘father,’ there is no title, including ‘vice president,’ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.”
– Joe Biden

“Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.”
– John Ciardi

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