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Doubt is the father of invention.

Galileo Galilei

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 taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Pete Rose

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

My father was an entrepreneur. I always knew one day I would try to start my own business.

Jim Brady

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

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Sam Ewing

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

He saw young children out in the cold. Their only crime was they wanted to see their father.

Bill Maer

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

The Holy Father does not approve.

Pius Xii

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

I love it here. I believe my father would be happy for me and my daughter.

Andy Wang

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

I saw what it did to my father. Being self-employed is sometimes like walking on a treadmill.

Andy Winn

We became friends, not just father and son.

Richard Bergeron

What´s the most especial thing about being a father? Everything.

Viggo Mortensen

No. It was like father and son ... He is my father.

John Doe

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

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

Jim Dodge

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