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Welcome to these Fathers Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Fathers and Love.
I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generations.
- Exodus 20:5
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- Margaret Mead
Victory has a thousand fathers,
but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy
Fourscore and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth on this continent,
a new nation, conceived in Liberty,
and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- Abraham Lincoln
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It doesn't matter who my father was.
It matters who I remember he was.
- Anne Sexton
My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
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
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Confused Memories of Childhood:
Hate to my father, cruel hate,
confused with love - a mix not great.
The man I love - the man I hate;
the man I want to emulate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The existence of an anthropomorphic
"Father-figure" deity is not impossible,
merely exceptionally improbable and illogical.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother
rather than all major credit cards.
- Robert Orben
Oh, Shrek. Don't worry.
Things just seem bad because it's dark and rainy
and Fiona's father hired a sleazy hitman to whack you.
- the movie Shrek 2
The child in me could not die as it should have died,
because according too legends it must find its father again.
The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence
the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized,
and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human,
as man who created a child and then, by his absence,
left the child fatherless and then Godless.
- Anais Nin
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by
his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
- Marva Collins
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
God doesn't make junk.
- Anonymous
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact.
If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
- Jewel
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't
come as a result of getting something we don't have,
but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
- Frederick Koenig
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words
but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Courage doesn't always roar.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
- Woody Allen
Just because I don't care,
doesn't mean I don't understand.
- Matt Groening's TV series The Simpsons.
I've always believed that if done properly,
armed robbery doesn't have to be an unpleasant experience.
- the movie Thelma & Louise
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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