Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

Lord Mountbatten

Father: [Elsa has just discovered the true nature of the camp] Elsa I was sworn to secrecy. Mother: From your own wife? Father: I took an oath upon my life, do you understand? Elsa you believe in this too. You want this country to be strong... Mother...

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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

Pope John XXIII

[2000 version] Lt. Kinderman: You go to films, Father Dyer? You like them? Father Dyer: Oh, sure. Lt. Kinderman: I get passes. In fact I've got a pass for the Crest tomorrow night. You'd like to go? Father Dyer: What's playing? Lt. Kinderman: "Wuther...

The Exorcist

I admire my father greatly.

Kojo Annan

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

Dwyane Wade

Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.

Rainn Wilson

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

William Graham Sumner

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

Richie Havens

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

Henry Louis Gates

Prince Herbert: But Mother... King of Swamp Castle: Father, I'm Father. Prince Herbert: But Father...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Marwood: If my father was loaded I'd ask him for some money. Withnail: If your father was my father you wouldn't get it.

Withnail & I

Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

Karen DeCrow

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

Anthony Quinn

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

Al Sharpton

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

James A. Baldwin

Brains are not to be found in the beard.

Indian

Sir Arthur grimaced. He hated violence - perhaps his father ingrained that into him. But he still fought, for principle and for father's legacy. Now that legacy meant the protection of defenseless women. There were a few Persians in the way to execut...

His Father's Command

God is a father, happiness is a stepfather.

Yiddish