We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

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.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.