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Quote:There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.[Victor Hugo]

Quote:The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.[Robert Frost]

Quote:You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.[Robert Frost]

Quote:Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.[Aristotle]

Quote:Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.[Bill Cosby]

Quote:If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.[Bill Cosby]

Quote:When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.[Mark Twain]

Quote:Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? [Dwight D. Eisenhower]

Quote:I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. [Charles Lamb]

Quote:The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. [Bertrand Russell]

Quote:The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. [Bertrand Russell]

Quote:Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it. [Dylan Thomas]



Definitions of: father

Definition: One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.

Definition: A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.

Definition: One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.

Definition: A respectful mode of address to an old man.

Definition: A senator of ancient Rome.

Definition: A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.

Definition: One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.

Definition: One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.

Definition: The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.

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