Biological Fathers Quotes:

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

- Jack Nicholson

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Father, Biological Fathers, Happens

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

- T. D. Jakes

topic: Spiritual, Father, Men, Stepfathers, Fathers Day Images

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.

- Oliver Hudson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Father, Son, Your Son, Biological Fathers

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

- Jim Valvano

topic: Basketball, Fathers Day, Dad, Father Died, Inspirational Father

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

- Theodore Hesburgh

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Family, Marriage Advice

When I was a kid, I was told that I had a biological father, but that he didn't have much importance. I had an adoptive father who was present, who loved me, who was up to the task. And he was. So, I didn't question that story, until I was thirty-two, and suddenly realized that I was curious, that he did have something to do with me.

- Melissa Febos

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Father, Kids, Two, Biological Fathers

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

- Pope John XXIII

topic: Fathers Day, Children, Dad, Inspirational Father, Being A Father

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

- Anne Sexton

source: "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

topic: Death, Daughter, Fathers Day, Loss Of A Parent, Father Died

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.'

- Harmon Killebrew

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Family, Mother, Fathers Day, Inspirational Father, Step Dad

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

- David Gottesman

topic: Mother, Daughter, Father, Inspirational Father, Like A Mother

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Boyfriend, Fathers Day, Funny Dad, Biological Fathers

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Family, Wise, Meaningful, Inspirational Father, Merchant Of Venice

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong, Joys Of Childhood, Inspirational Father

My character [in This Is Us], Randall, was adopted. He'd never met either of his biological parents so he seeks out and finds his biological father after 36 years. So that's where we find my character at the beginning of the show.

- Sterling K. Brown

topic: Father, Character, Years, Biological Fathers

I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.

- Rosario Dawson

source: "Rosario Dawson Talks GIMME SHELTER, Coming Full Circle Since Her Debut in KIDS, Responding to the Screenplay, and Collaborating with Vanessa Hudgens". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 22, 2014.

topic: Mom, Dad, Father, Biological Fathers

I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

- Jack White

source: "The Mysterious Case of the White Stripes" by David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. September 8, 2005.

topic: Dad, Father, Three, Biological Fathers

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring a pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support ... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

- Karen DeCrow

source: Letter to the editor by Karen DeCrow, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1982.

topic: Father, Pregnancy, Independent, Autonomous, Biological Fathers

There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

- Maureen Reagan

topic: Heaven, Special, Caregivers, Great Father, Dad Love

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

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Men, Inspirational Father, Daughter To Father

What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?

- Rob Bell

topic: Christian, Religious, Jesus, Religious Cults, Virgin Birth

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

- Laura Benanti

topic: Mother, Teacher, Father, Stepfathers, Psychotherapists

I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.

- Kitty Kelley

source: "Oprah’s Aunt Katharine’s Denials May Be Pressure From Oprah" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2010.

topic: Father, Feelings, Identity, True Feelings, Biological Fathers