Quotations About / On: FATHER

  • 41.
    I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
    (Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychiatrist. repr. in Complete Works, vol. 21, eds. James Strachey and Anna Freud (1961). Civilization and Its Discontents (1931).)
    More quotations from: Sigmund Freud, childhood, father
  • 42.
    Resolution thus fubbed with the rusty curb of old father antic the law.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Falstaff, in Henry IV, Part 1, act 1, sc. 2, l. 61. Falstaff is speaking of the courage ("resolution") of thieves; "fubbed" means thwarted; "antic" means clown.)
    More quotations from: William Shakespeare, father
  • 43.
    It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.
    (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian author, playwright. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Works, Notebook I, vol. 17, p. 10, "Nauka" (1980).)
    More quotations from: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, brother, son, father
  • 44.
    A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
    (Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Nicomède, in Nicomède, act 4, sc. 3 (1651).)
    More quotations from: Pierre Corneille, husband, father
  • 45.
    You can have fun with a son,
    But you got to be a father to a girl.
    (Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), U.S. songwriter. "Soliloquy," Carousel, Williamson Music Inc. (1945). Music composed by Richard Rodgers (1902-1979).)
    More quotations from: Oscar Hammerstein II, fun, son, girl, father
  • 46.
    Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 266, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Human, All-Too-Human, "Woman and Child," aphorism 381, "Correcting Nature," (1878). Nietzsche's own persistent attempt to "procure" a father is quite convincingly documented in Carl Pletsch, Young Nietzsche: Becoming a Genius, New York, Free Press (1991), especially in chapter three, "Without a Father," pp. 31-45.)
    More quotations from: Friedrich Nietzsche, father
  • 47.
    Struggling in my father's hands,
    Striving against my swaddling bands,
    Bound and weary, I thought best
    To sulk upon my mother's breast.
    (William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Infant Sorrow (l. 5-8). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.)
    More quotations from: William Blake, father, mother
  • 48.
    What is this mother-father
    to tear at our entrails?
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Tribute to the Angels.")
    More quotations from: Hilda Doolittle, father, mother
  • 49.
    My father named me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Autolycus, in The Winter's Tale, act 4, sc. 3, l. 24-6 (1623). In mythology, Autolycus was the son of Mercury (god of thieves); here, Autolycus was born when the planet Mercury was in the ascendant.)
    More quotations from: William Shakespeare, father
  • 50.
    now I must sit at my father's fireboard,
    And rock my bastard baby.
    (Unknown. The Rantin Laddie (l. 11-12). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
    More quotations from: Unknown, baby, father

Read Quotations On / About:

[Hata Bildir]