Father's Day

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Our genes keep unfolding as long as we live. Harry tastes in his teeth a sourness that offended him on his father’s breath. Poor Pop. His face yellowed like a dried apricot at the end.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty: of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

It was a maxim with Foxey—our revered father, gentlemen—“Always suspect everybody.”

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Deep in the cavern of the infant’s breast / The father’s nature lurks, and lives anew.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seenl, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

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

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know --
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

[H]ard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Do not consider painful what is good for you. Euripides A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

I never got along with my dad. When I was a kid, other kids would come up to me: “My dad can beat up your dad.” I’d go, “When?… He cuts the lawn on Saturdays. Nail him out there when he’s got those Bermuda shorts, red tennis shoes, and sock garters on.”

The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents.