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Quotes About Fathers

I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.
~ Pope Pius X
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
~ Zebulon Pike
I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.
~ Esther Rolle
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
~ Galeazzo Ciano
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
~ Adam Johnson
I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.
~ Pope Leo I
In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!
~ Pope Leo X
Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers
~ Robin Morgan
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
~ Luis Bunuel
Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.
~ Homer
If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.
~ Mark Hart
Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.
~ Garrison Keillor
The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
~ Catherine Deneuve
Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.
~ Paul Newman
Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
~ Peter B. Lewis
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
~ Robert Byrd
It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
~ Ian Hart
For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.
~ John M. McHugh
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
~ Quintilian
I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.
~ Unknown
...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.
~ Adolf Hitler
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.
~ Melanie Benjamin