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Quotes About Paternity

You know, there's one other thing I don't do, Vince. I don't have dirty, unprotected sex with some money grubbing skank who eventually files a paternity suit against me, which gets me kicked out of my own house and leaves me nothing but a living, breathing national disgrace.
~ Phil Brooks
La tierra que habitamos es un error, una incompetente parodia. Los espejos y la paternidad son abominables, porque la multiplican y afirman. El asco es la virtud fundamental.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I've had more paternity suits than casual suits.
~ Engelbert Humperdinck
Vergogna a coloro che fanno dei giovani più abbandonati un oggetto fantasmatico di terrore nazionale! Costoro sono la feccia di una società senza onore che ha perduto finanche il sentimento della paternità.
~ Daniel Pennac
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
~ James Joyce
Paternity is a long way from fatherhood.
~ James MacDonald
The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.
~ Aeschylus
If all men are brothers outside of any specifically human paradigm then no one can truly be a brother. The institution of a symbolically universal "paternity" annihilates the very possibility of true fraternity, in such a way that it proclaims itself in the absolute by the very thing that destroys it.
~ Alain de Benoist
She possessed, further - as became the mother of six sturdy children of assorted paternity-- a discerning eye for a fine figure of a man
~ Rafael Sabatini
Evolutionary psychologists have noted the particular eagerness with which new babies are scanned for resemblances to their paternal, as opposed to maternal relatives – for the obvious reason that it is harder to be confident of paternity than maternity.
~ Richard Dawkins
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
~ James Joyce
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.
~ Herman Melville
No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.
~ Margaret Turnbull
Had the eighty-four-year-old wandering miller not made his unexpected reappearance to recognize the paternity of his thirty-nine-year-old-son nearly thirty years after the death of the mother, Adolf Hitler would have been born Adolf Schicklgruber. There may not be much or anything in the name, but I have heard Germans speculate whether Hitler could have become the master of Germany had he been known to the world as Schicklgruber.
~ William L. Shirer
Some folks say That he's my son! I guess it's possible, you know. I've had so many one-night stands, So many whams and bams and thank-me-ma'ams, I can't keep track of every mademoiselle. Plus, I'm not the type to kiss and tell.
~ David Elliott
Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.
~ Johnny Carson
Incontable es el número de criaturas que han tomado por padre a quien no lo era suyo y por hermanos a quienes lo eran a medias
~ Javier Marías
Fitz probably had half a dozen bastards around the world, but Ethel's was the only one he knew of for sure.
~ Ken Follett
O heavens! this is my true-begotten father.
~ William Shakespeare
I don't know if I killed my dad or not.
~ Jeanne Willis
I wouldn't want to do a 'Maury Povich' show. Baby daddy! Who's your daddy? Who's your mama? I wouldn't want to do that kind of show.
~ NeNe Leakes
Tiny fairywren Who is your father? *snake chomp* Guess we'll never know
~ Jennifer Ackerman