Father Quotes

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

Father forgive us, for we do not what we know.

When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

A father’s love always brings healing.

You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.

My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.

Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called ‘the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.’ These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.

I respected my father, but I loved my mother.