Fathers Quotations | Page 5

My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.

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.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

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

My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

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.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day.

During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and said, 'As long as you're in this house, being president is my second most important job'.

People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.

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.

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.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones / Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; / Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old / When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

If we believe that he (Jesus Christ) really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the

Those who trust us educate us.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago

The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. (October 27, 1964)

This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago

Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand

Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're a regular guy.

Noble fathers have noble children.

I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a person more fearless and courageous than my father ... The thing that I admire most about my dad is his genuine Christian character. He is a man of real integrity, deeply committed to moral and ethical principles. He is conscientious in all of his undertakings ... If I had a problem I could always call Daddy.

..[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt...

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

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

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.

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.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

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

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.