As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. 7 other quotes from Gloria Swanson
I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career. 2 more quotes from Patrick Duffy
My father was something of a rainbow-chaser. 2 other views from Marc Davis
Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers. 3 quotes from Herbert Kaufman
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. 2 quotes from Simon Newcomb
My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City? 16 quotes from Henny Youngman
The child is father of the man. 21 quotes from William Wordsworth
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. 26 quotes from Harry S. Truman
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. 13 other quotes from Fred Allen
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. 45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. 45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals. 5 views from Alastair Campbell
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. 46 thoughts from John F. Kennedy
My father was never anti-anything in our house. 2 quotes from Errol Flynn
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. 6 views from John Ciardi
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. 45 more quotes from Aldous Huxley
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. 15 more quotes from Jean de La Fontaine
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. 19 wisdom & wit from E. B. White
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. 103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has not had a good father, one must create one. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. 2 other thoughts from Enid Bagnold
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be. 10 more wisdom & wit from Robert Mapplethorpe
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. 9 other views from Pope John XXIII
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. 10 thoughts from Robert Mapplethorpe
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much. 14 other thoughts from Hedy Lamarr
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. 52 quotes from George Eliot
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it. 17 more sayings from Sammy Davis, Jr.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. 18 views from Margaret Mead
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. 2 wisdom & wit from Victor Borge
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house. 5 thoughts from Janis Joplin
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. 3 thoughts from August Strindberg
The most important influence in my childhood was my father. 2 quotes from DeForest Kelley
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. 3 more quotes from Edward Kennedy
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. 21 more quotes from Anais Nin
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. 31 other wisdom & wit from Gertrude Stein
But the love of adventure was in father's blood. 7 quotes from Buffalo Bill