Quotes of the Week - May 20, 2008:
"I wish for the recovery of my daughter Kerstin, the love of my children,
the protection of my family and for people with heart and compassion."
-- Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman kept as sex slave by her father
for 24 years thanks people for their support in a handwritten message
on notice board in square of her home town.
"No foreigners allowed." -- Burmese police officer stops aid
workers from entering cyclone-stricken communities in Irrawaddy Delta.
"My wife wouldn't let me retire. She kicks me out of the door at
7am every morning. She's quite a formidable person." -- Sir Alex
Ferguson after his team Manchester United won Premier League title.
"I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."
-- US President George Bush explains why he quite the game in 2003.
Topic: Father Quotes - Famous Father
Quotes, Quotations, Sayings about Fathers
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert
It matters not that Time has shed
His thawless snow upon your head,
For he maintains, with wondrous art,
Perpetual summer in your heart. William Hamilton Hayne To My Father
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. Anonymous Often erroneously attributed to Mark Twain
It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is
a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. Bertrand Russell
He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his
masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more
poignant as we get more anonymous in this world. Arthur Miller
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," my dad would reply, "we're
raising boys. Harmon Killebrew
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is
soap-on-a-rope. Bill Cosby
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs
and fears. Francis Bacon, Sr.
A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look
like his father. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What's all this fuss about fathers being present at the
birth of their children? The way events are shaping, they'll
be lucky to be present at the conception. George H. Davies
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes
is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is
beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very
successful father. Eleanor Roosevelt
One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make
me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father
prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to
be. Anonymous
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. William Wordsworth
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call
him father! Lydia M. Child
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
And don't criticize what you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'. Bob Dylan
Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long
upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Bible Exodus 20. 12
A father is always making his baby into a little woman.
And when she is a woman he turns her back again. Enid Bagnold
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change
all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains
the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father
taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But
as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think
a photograph can be kind. Albert Einstein
The most important thing a father can do for his children
is to love their mother. Theodore M. Hesburgh
It is much easier to become a father than to be one. Kent Nerburn
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about
their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was
not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy
who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could,
out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called
Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical
and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid
on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities
There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in
Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa
Claus. Author Unknown
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Euripides
A wise son maketh a glad father. Bible Proverbs 10. 1
Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person
to be a dad. Proverb
The child is father to the man. Gerald Manley Hopkins
Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Rest, rest, on mother's breast,
Father will come to thee soon;
Father will come to his babe in the best,
Silver sails all out of the west,
Under the silver moon:
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep. Alfred Lord Tennyson Sweet and Low
When one has not had a good father, one must create one."
Friedrich Nietzsche
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch
him do it. Clarence Budington Kelland
There are fathers who do not love their children, but there
is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. Victor Hugo
My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.
That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try
to give back. Tiger Woods
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything
together. Erika Cosby
The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl
has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable
rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of
qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -
like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle
I it took such months to get. Phyllis McGinley
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember
he was. Anne Sexton
How true Daddy's words were when he said: "All children
must look after their own upbringing." Parents can only
give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final
forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. Anne Frank
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right,
he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. Charles Wadsworth
A father is a banker provided by nature. French Proverb
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the
need for a father's protection. Sigmond Freud
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest
inheritance. Ruth E. Renkel
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything
together. Erika Cosby
There's something like a line of gold thread running through
a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over
the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your
hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. John Gregory Brown
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill
you quicker if they didn't. Barbara Kingsolver
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin
unprotected. Red Buttons
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