Quotes on Fathers

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.

Author: Charles Beard

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

Author: George Catlin

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

Author: Ron Chernow

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

Author: Chauncey Depew

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

Author: Ellen Goodman

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.

Author: Thomas Goodwin

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

Author: Edith Hamilton

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

Author: Doc Hastings

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Author: Oliver Holmes, Jr.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Author: Homer

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Author: Horace

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?

Author: Joseph Howe

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

Author: Oliver Hudson

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Author: Aldous Huxley

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Author: Giuseppe Mazzini

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.

Author: John McHugh

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Author: Lewis Mumford

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Author: Wendell Phillips

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Author: Quintilian

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.

Author: Tim Robbins

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.

Author: Leigh Steinberg

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

Author: Terence

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

Author: Dylan Thomas