Famous Quotes & Sayings

And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

All you can do is to say three Hail Marys and three Our Fathers and throw the letters in. God will play a larger role in this than a lawyer.

Oscar Wilde

The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

Olive Schreiner

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Epictetus

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Tim McGraw

I'm probably the most uncool guy that [my daughters] know-as far as they are concerned anyway-'cause I'm Dad. I mean dads just aren't cool-especially when I dance! They don't want me to dance.

Tiger Woods

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

Pete Rose

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Joseph Joubert

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Kent Nerburn

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Kent Nerburn

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.

Joseph Addison

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

Luther Vandross

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

Marlene Dietrich

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

Maria Sharapova

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

Louisa May Alcott

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

John Green

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

John Green

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

Jon Stewart

Don't confuse [Father's Day] with Valentine's Day, and here's why. Boy, will you creep him out. I can just tell you from last year, uh, even if they do like chocolate, they don't want it from their son.

Jon Stewart

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

Quentin Crisp

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Pope John XXIII

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Naveen Jain

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

Laurance Rockefeller

Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.

Gustave Flaubert

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

T. D. Jakes

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

Ray Romano

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

Vance Havner

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

Ron Reagan

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

Samuel Johnson

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Wally Schirra

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

Stephen King

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.