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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. -- Margaret Mead
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. -- Oscar Wilde
Fathers should make you feel safe. -- Karen Cushman
Fathers should speak with their children. -- Pope Francis
Fathers can find great inspiration in faith. -- Bruce Feiler
... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers. -- Ronald Reagan
Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fathers teach their best lessons to their children -- Lynda Lovejoy
Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch. -- Scott Thompson
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things. -- Oliver Hudson
I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines. -- David Edelstein
Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Fathers always play mahagurus to their children, and I am no exception. -- Mithun Chakraborty
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you. -- Zebulon Pike
Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children. -- George W. Bush
Real Fathers are men of integrity & honour. Their word is their bond. -- Fela Durotoye
Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits. -- Donald Freed
Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home. -- Amit Kalantri
Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own. -- Benjamin Franklin
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states. -- Judy Biggert
Biology makes us Mothers & Fathers, whats in the heart makes us Mom's and Dad's -- Kevin Heath
Real Fathers are Solution Providers and not a part of the problem to be solved. -- Fela Durotoye
Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue. -- Louise J. Kaplan
Well, I have the same vision I think that the Founding Fathers of this country had. -- David Duke
On this special Fathers Day, we'd like to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday. -- Ralph Kiner
The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized. -- Michael Beschloss
This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.... -- John Ashcroft
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. -- e. e. cummings
Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home. -- Ernest Istook
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts. -- Mason Cooley
Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence -- Tara Fela-Durotoye
As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity on both counts. -- Shirley Chisholm
Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. -- Bill Cosby
Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first. -- Barbara Bush
In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen. -- C. S. Lewis
Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart. -- Michael Ondaatje
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development. -- David Gottesman
This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers]. -- LZ Granderson
Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers. -- Zoe Saldana
Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills -- Fela Durotoye
Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years. -- John Linder
If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners. -- Abigail Adams
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual... -- Ronald Reagan
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities. -- Mike Quigley
Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication. -- Richard Louv
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. -- Stephen Colbert
...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections. -- Bruce Fein
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. -- Simone de Beauvoir
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. -- Hugo Black
You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today. -- Doc Hastings
Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy. -- Ernestine Rose
We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything. -- Henry Steele Commager
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president. -- Tom Rice
The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation. -- Ronald Reagan
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. -- Chauncey Depew
Fathers and mothers," she found herself saying, "leave their mark, no matter if we've known them a lifetime or only a day. -- Nalini Singh
Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in -- Fela Durotoye
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government. -- Ron Paul
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world. -- N. T. Wright
I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated. -- David O. McKay
Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link. -- Anita R. Sneed-Carter
Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's. -- Paul Harvey
A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied. -- John Cassian
Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on! -- Louis C. K.
The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it is happened. -- John Lennox
Of all the things I have been privileged to do and experience in life, the highest honor has been fatherhood. Wishing Fathers everywhere a wonderful day. -- Roy Yamaguchi
Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue. -- Dallin H. Oaks
Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place. -- Mark Driscoll
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. -- John Updike
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution. -- Michael Badnarik
Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too. -- John Mayer
The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will. -- Francis Turretin
Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn into mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too. -- John Mayer
My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job. -- Barbara Holland
Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too. -- John Mayer
A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it. -- Sam Ervin
To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure. -- Fanny Fern
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. -- Barber Conable
When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters. -- Nancy Pelosi
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority -- Barber B. Conable, Jr.
If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves. -- Rick Santelli
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made -- James Hillman
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made. -- James Hillman
Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound? -- Frances Wright
If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad. -- Paul Begala
The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly. -- David Harsanyi
The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. Its a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly. -- David Harsanyi
Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself. -- William Temple
Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now. -- Damon Albarn
My arm was extended upward pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers. When my hand came down, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist. -- Zebulon Baird Vance
Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers. -- Todd Tiahrt
Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models. -- Leigh Steinberg
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
If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Fathers House. It's the home of your dreams! -- Anne Graham Lotz
My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.' -- Stark Sands
The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it. -- Dylan Thomas
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. -- John F. Kennedy
Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education. -- Yoshihiko Noda
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. -- Herodotus
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. -- Arna Bontemps
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. -- Victor Hugo
Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. -- Amy Heckerling
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. -- Tecumseh
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers. -- T. D. Jakes
In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones. -- Louis de Bernieres
Four score 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. -- Abraham Lincoln
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! -- Thomas A. Edison
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. -- Allan Bloom
Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless. -- Joan of Arc
To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20. -- Marian Wright Edelman
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. -- Charles A. Beard
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. -- Barry Goldwater
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world. -- Alice Morse Earle

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