Doubt is the father of invention.
Galileo Galilei
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.
Germaine Greer
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Jorge Luis Borges
You're not helping your father here by giving me information that doesn't agree with him.
Timothy Harrison
John has changed. He is more grown up. He is a great father, and has more compassion when it comes to the little details in life.
Jamie Colton
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander The Great
My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow.
Don Williams, Jr.
Hello Father Romano. It's your favorite tenor.
Daniel Rodriguez
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson
I think it beats them all. This is the best feeling a father can have.
Steve Kinser
My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.
Nicolas Cage
My father is 60, and Geoffrion was of great impact for people of that age.
Pascal Leclaire
We do our best to teach them how to be a father and a husband.
Albert Flores
My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.
Karl Malden
I had to be the only child in this country who ever called his father 'The King.'
Kyle Petty
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
Beverly Cleary
My father had the ability to connect with many people on many levels.
Steve House
That was a no-brainer because my father played football.
John Avery
We are confirming that Brad Pitt is in the process of becoming the adoptive father of both children.
Cindy Guagenti
My father is a heart and cancer patient, so we had to get his medications from his room.
Lynne Strasenburgh
I'm a better person for it. I'm definitely a better husband, a better father, a better grandfather for it.
Sen. Mario Gallegos
Even though our father left us, she never said a word against him.
Judy Caughran
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos
Our father was a Finnish man, very reserved. He didn't really talk about feelings.
Leane Ross
My father taught me everything I know about handicapping, so he and I are rather excited.
Jerry O'connell
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Bob's been so much more than a boss to us. He's been a friend, a father, a confidante and a counselor.
Cindy Delp
My father was a very social person, and between the two of them, they had a worldwide collection of friends.
Deborah Tibbitt
Her father had brought her a bookbag. It had pencils and pens in it and even a yo-yo to play with. She was so excited.
Phyllis Hunter
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
George Eliot
Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
Karl Kraus
If the father is able to take custody of the boy -- he would be here tomorrow.
Greg Craig
You took from me my best friend and the father of my children.
Connie Miller
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
August Strindberg
The worshiper is the father of the gods.
H. L. Mencken
Her father wanted to cut my throat.
Charles Mellor
It's a fairly simple story, about father and son and redemption.
David Benken
No, I am your father.
David Prowse
Bush cannot embark on a mission that fails. Given what happened to his father and the hype in this Administration, it would be the end.
Geoffrey Kemp
We have evidence to show that the father masterminded it, and the son went along with it.
John Russo
A freak in my neighborhood. My father wasn't interested in sports.
Harry Lapow
When the father woke up it had already started.
Gabriel Ortiz
He was their other father. That's just the kind of person he was.
Laura Tartamella
Of all the unusual things my father did in baseball, ... my favorite hands down was the exploding scoreboard.
Mike Veeck
I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.
Ricky Skaggs
My father wasn't a big baseball fan. However, he thought it would be a better profession then football.
Tommy Giles
He said, 'Four. The mother, the father and [two] children. ... That's who you're entertaining,' .
Rose Marie
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
Becoming a father isn't difficult,But it's very difficult to be a father.
Wilhelm Busch
Whatever adversaries these days, our Father, help us face them with courage.
James Hood
If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
Ray Romano
Our father believed if you did things right along the way, the destination would turn out right.
John Larranaga
I'm the one that has to go to my kid and explain to him why his father has to leave and go to the mainland.
Bill Mullins
The support is due to the Peruvian people's support of my father.
Keiko Fujimori
I will be the father of a 5-year-old once. I will work for 30 years.
Dr. Justin Denny
My relationship with my father was the most central relationship of my life from the time I was zero to 30.
Bruce Paltrow
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
Red Auerbach
He could be her father. Hello?
Kelsey Albright
That happens when you become a father and have seen the things Raine has seen. That changes you as a person and you can't not bring that to what is that you do.
Duncan Coutts
Duty: A Father, His Son and the Man Who Won the War.
Bob Greene
I?m approaching it like I?m throwing to my father. I?m staying relaxed.
Gavin Floyd
Like a said, there's a 2-year-old and a fiancée without a father.
Jack Herbert
He did not want the life his father had lived. He changed diapers, he drove a minivan.
Jeffrey Lichtman
After I lost my father, I thought I couldn't do this without him.
Fanny Harvey
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
Lillian Hellman
I have not received one negative call about Father Bailey, not one.
Bert Weiss
Hard-working, self-educated and nurturing man. A concerned and a devoted father.
Terry Nichols
A Father. A Son. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Kirk Douglas
Daniel's father is of the more conservative wing of the church, not really in favor of gay marriage.
Jack Kenny
If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.
Scott Mcnealy
He was our father — no one man can replace him.
Isaac Abraham
He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father.
Paul Reiser
If my father had been an IRS agent, I probably would have been an IRS agent.
John Pizzarelli
It's kind of her asking her father why he did this.
Leslie Sloane
He can't comprehend what we've been through. He's a father. I want to tell him what we've been through.
Susanna Dudiyeva
My dad was an amazing father. He was very loving and supportive. He was the best dad you could ever ask for.
Kristin Hawkins
Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.
Shahrukh Khan
Being the father he was, he just comforted his son in his time of need.
Bill Lynch
He begot a God, who is not God the Father, that is God the Son, who (as) Son is not the Father, who is God; here the sense is true.
Peter Lombard
I do - they don't seem to care about my rabbits. He (Bacchus' father) said it's just rabbits, it's just animals killing animals.
Laren Quade
I wanted us to come together and say thank you to him. We have always considered him our spiritual father.
Malaika Hightower
His mother decided to tell him that I was his father.
Ross Browner
We miss Craig more every day. We loved Craig. He's been a wonderful son, husband, father and brother.
Andrea Macy
Everybody knew my father. He wasn't a troublemaker. My father was working. He didn't bother anybody. We should have spent Christmas with him.
Jose Servellon
They said that the father did not know there was drinking going on. We felt it was appropriate to drop the charge.
Lucien Chalfen
War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?
Gerhard Kocher
All I've wanted, all these years, was to find the remains of my father and be able to bury them, ... Now, I am told that I will never be able to do so.
Viviana Diaz
I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years old that I was able to breathe a little and realize all that my father had done.
Ramon Magsaysay
Worse, the name of her father who had died was still on the list.
Aquilino Pimentel
The level of engagement wouldn't have gone away. If he was going to be an activist, he would have been all the way an activist. If he was going to be a father, he would have been all the way a father.
Alan Light
Unfortunately Brad was there also but he could not be spared because he would be a witness to the murder of his father.
Peter Smid
If our father is our basis for God, and our fathers abandoned us, then what does that tell you about God?
Tyler Durden
He will be sleeping within an arm's length from his father and mother.
Prince Frederik
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
Anthony Edwards
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton
My father had a pat answer: I'm extremely proud of all my three children.
James Gandolfini
Our savior turned to his father and said, 'We don't want to say no to Marilyn.
Leann Arganbright
A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving
The father's injury, in this case, can be connected to guilt at having been away. He was not there for his father.
Maurice Elias
And especially the newer bishops. Everybody knows they were appointed by the Holy Father.
Cardinal Zen
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
Dick Gregory
He was a father figure to all of us.
Randy Price
This is my dad. I'm an only child. My whole life is my father.
Dan Avenaim
My father decided I should leave. Of my brothers and sisters I was the only one who was single, so I was chosen.
Mahdi Ahmedi
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
John Marquand
I do not hate my father. I hate the person you became.
Tina Singleton
They were a Christmas/'going-off-to-trial' gift from my father-in-law.
Daniel Petrocelli
He was like a father to me. He was always dedicated to this nation... I am worried about the future of this country.
Rafael Levy
It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't do anything by himself. It was difficult for her to get him in and out of the car.
James Maxey
He was like a second father to me.
Marcelo Balboa
That was the first night I heard someone cuss my father.
Johnson Dorn
One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
David Duchovny
It is a great way for us to spend father-and-son time together.
Tom Flores
Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.
Don Baylor
Mickey: If I were Hitler you'd give me my father. If I were Hitler, you'd give me your country!"
Forget Paris
He was a father of the nation.
Blerim Shala
Maureen's hoping she can go up and see her father, too, ... Good Morning America.
Michael Deaver
My father never got to see me much, but he always asked how I did. Every time I am on the court, I want to show him and his family what I am capable of.
Omara Parker
I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.
John Sutter
I think it is fair to say my father came from extremely humble beginnings. He was very much a self-fashioned man.
Alan Howard
Her mother was an overwhelming force, ... Her father was emphatic and imperious.
Arthur Schlesinger
I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
Dean Gordon Brown
Once a son tells you this is his dream ? and the father has been where he wants to go ? it's my obligation to drive him.
Jeff Christensen
It is clear that the father was trying to get them out, ... Everyone was attempting to escape.
Glenn Williams
I lost my child. Her children lost their mother. Her father lost a daughter. Her grandmother lost a grandchild.
Marsha Jones
My father goes to China frequently.
Xie Yuanyang
He's their father. Ultimately, it's his decision.
Debbie Rowe
My father always told me that once you get the ball to 'use your shoes, ... That's what I do.
Ted Ginn Jr.
Everybody was in a band in those days, and my father was a professional musician, so it was kind of expected that I would become a musician.
Peter Noone
Our father was exposed to Agent Orange during the war.
Andrea Hall
They've got some really solid brands and a lot of things this father might enjoy.
Jim Huguet
This Is My Father.
Aidan Quinn
Mike came up the driveway screaming, 'My mother and father are dead, my mother and father are dead.' They weren't dead.
Drew Outhouse
So how did I get from this dude, to Father Calloway?
Donald Calloway
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White
We're talking about the loss of a very active father with his 10-year-old.
Michael Fisher
He became a father-figure to me. He was a big part of my life.
Dave Fleming
We look at it this way. She is spending eternity with our heavenly father.
James Rogers
I'm going to go home and be a father. That's it.
Tuffy Rhodes
[H]e proceeded to blame President Bush and his father, Bush the elder, for orchestrating an attack on their own country.
Terry Gross
It wasn't my father, ... My father was a good guy. I feel I need to fix this.
Mary Burns
There was no winner in this. Somebody lost a father, somebody lost a son. Basically, it devastated two families.
Charlie Johnson
And my father, after all, was a nationalist.
Heinrich Mann
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Kent Nerburn
God is dead! Heaven is empty - Weep, children, you no longer have a father.
Gerard De Nerval
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Abraham Lincoln
It's not a father-son (relationship) when it's on this football field. It's boss-employee.
Jeff Bowden
We became friends, not just father and son.
Richard Bergeron
What´s the most especial thing about being a father? Everything.
Viggo Mortensen
Perhaps my father will be pretty happy if I give it to him.
Hideki Matsui
I could see it in his face that he wanted to leave, but he couldn't convince his father.
Ron Parker
He has to hear that we're human beings and that our father, son, mother, whoever, were human beings.
John Shanagher
Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father.
Gloria Allred
My father was not going to let me take over the business just because I was his son.
Michael Eric Dyson
Thank you, thank you, Holy Father.
Stanislaw Dziwisz
She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx
They left my kids without a father.
Luz Martinez
He's an old-fashioned, traditional father and he is going to pay for everything he feels responsible for.
Douglas Whipp
Father Righi is very satisfied and moved.
Severo Bruno
I didn't expect him to turn against his father and the people identified with his father.
Percy Sutton
My client has the child's baby bracelet and normally that is delivered to the father as a memento of the child's birth.
Dan Sammons
My father has been extremely supportive of my music. I would classify him as my hero. If it was not for him, there is no way I would be where I am.
J. Loren Wince
There was in our father Adam before his fall the very image and likeness of God.
Heinrich Bullinger
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Giordano Bruno
I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.
Greg Norman
If Roy wants his father back, that's fine with me. It's working fine. Big Roy has his job, and I have my job. He does the things that he does, and I do the things that I do. We're both helping Roy.
Alton Merkerson
Believe me what I did came from my heart. She asked me for help and I gave it to her. She wanted her father and she got her father.
Joe Sparico
A doctor is a doctor, a lawyer is a lawyer and a cop is a cop. If I was a father, this would be over with, but I want to do it right.
Rick Sungaila
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Roger Von Oech
A great, black father.
Arsenio Hall
That's very sad. Your children will never know there father.
Faith Thornton
I kind of think it's a little bit of a message from my father.
Louis Frankel
This restaurant has proven itself. This is the only thing my father and I have ever done, and this is it for us. We care about every franchisee and customer.
Brett Mcfarland
My mother had her own horse. Her father drove a horse and carriage and his horses were the best.
Larry Morrissey
I was so emotionally distraught. I missed my father. Those first couple days were really hard.
Larry Garza
He was there for everyone, and he would help till the ends of the earth. I would never change a thing that my father ever did. I follow his recipes to a tee.
Fanny Harvey
My father bore that burden like Hercules. It never should have happened. ... My father was so amazing.
David Slutsky
She said to me 'your father loves you'.
Casey Donovan
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.
Frank Herbert
I know my father felt very highly of him.
John Unitas
My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'
Cary Grant
The father could have been a bona fide collector.
Steve Siegel
I don't believe my father ever felt embraced. From the beginning, there was an outpouring of negative articles from the media and a lot of backlash.
David Behring
And he would've been a great father, and he would've had a lot of fun with his children.
Maureen Smith
I'm focused. I learned from my father not to hesitate.
Cesar Millan
I loved my father so much and couldn't handle what she was doing to him.
Laura Melisi
This defendant planned this execution of his father and carried it out very efficiently.
Frank Schroeder
My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
Amy Sedaris
My father said writing was a nice hobby, ... Not something you could make money at.
Tess Gerritsen
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