Quotes about Fathers

"Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes."
-Gloria Naylor

"My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow."
-Don Williams, Jr.

"My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere."
-Nicolas Cage

"I had to be the only child in this country who ever called his father 'The King.'"
-Kyle Petty

"Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts."
-Mary Ellen Chase

"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

"My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now."
-Cameron Diaz

"Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had."
-Aristotle

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
-Aristotle

"My father's Jewish. My mother's Jewish. I'm Jewish."
-Daniel Pearl

"Even now, where you have single fathers raising their children too, not just single mothers."
-Sandra Dials

"My father's memory is impaired, but mostly he's just an old man."
-Joan Felt

"Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act."
-Alice Meynell

"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."
-Charles Lamb

"This is not your father's Apollo program."
-Chris Shank

"To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin."
-Michael Beschloss

"My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution."
-James Meredith

"The new generation of fathers is interested in doing this, and fathers are taking more time to be with their children."
-Cindy Chu

"He was not all a father's heart could wish;/ But oh, he was my son! my only son."
-Joanna Baillie

"Obviously, Tom won by himself, but I think that his father's experience in the political arena was an asset to him."
-Mark Proctor

"Our argument is that fathers should have the same right."
-Martha Davis

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children."
-John James Audubon

"I never intended to confront my father, but it became inevitable, ... Ironically enough, it happened on Fathers Day."
-Angela Shelton

"We are about reuniting children with their fathers, not taking them away."
-Matt O'connor

"People are starting to understand this is not your father's Astroturf."
-Chris Payne

"Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't."
-L. L. Henderson

"If our father is our basis for God, and our fathers abandoned us, then what does that tell you about God?"
-Tyler Durden

"The father's injury, in this case, can be connected to guilt at having been away. He was not there for his father."
-Maurice Elias