Absent father quotes

He doesn't have the greatest smarts in the world. His main interests in school were broads and booze.

J. Danforth Quayle's Father

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

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

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayna

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.

John Wayne

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadsworth

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Groucho Marx

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

Washington Irving

I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'

Margo Kaufman

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Peter De Vries

"Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Sextus Propertius 54 BC-AD 2

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Quentin Crisp

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

George Eliot

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

Maraget Turnbull

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Ricther

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.

Robert Copeland

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Homer

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

Fred Allen

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Gloria Steinem

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

Abraham Lincoln

In my Father's house are many mansions.

Bible

Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated

Allphonse de Lamartine

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Ovid