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Short Dad Quotes

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

John F. Kennedy

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Anais Nin

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

Edward Tufte

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jesus Christ

Deep Dad Quotes

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Lee Iacocca

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Niccolo Machiavelli

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

Elizabeth I

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

Benny Hinn

Dad Quotes About Love

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

Princess Diana

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Jesus Christ

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

Lynn Johnston

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

Clyde Tombaugh

In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.

Bruno Schulz

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

Michael Milken

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

Lawrence Welk

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

Isabella Rossellini

More Dad Quotes

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Harry S. Truman

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Bertrand Russell

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

Francois Rabelais

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Peter De Vries

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

Lisa Guerrero

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

Gustav Stresemann

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

Walter Salles

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

Hugh Leonard

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Robert South

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

Sam Sheppard

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

William John Wills

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

Constance Baker Motley

At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.

Charles Eastman

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

Theodore C. Sorensen

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

Catherine Helen Spence

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Austin O'Malley

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

Neil Cavuto

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

Kim Weston

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

Stanley Crouch

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

Alison Bechdel

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

John L. Phillips

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

Stephen Sondheim

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

Peter Jennings

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

Walter Salles

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

Ed Miliband

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

Sitting Bull

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

William Robertson Smith

Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Joe Biden

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

David Rockefeller

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

David Guterson

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

Honore de Balzac

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

Cornelia Funke

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

H. G. Wells

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Jean de La Fontaine

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

Lasse Hallstrom

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

August Strindberg

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Phil McGraw

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