Father Bride Sayings

#1. As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.

Jessica Valenti

#2. The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.

Vincente Minnelli

#3. I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.'
'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.

William Goldman

#4. Lobola ("bride price") is a retired broke father's last hope to paying off his debts.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#5. They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me.

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. 'The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl,

Gregory David Roberts

#7. No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus

#8. It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed
the two bridemaids were duly inferior
her father gave her away
her mother stood with salts in her hand expecting to be agitated
her aunt tried to cry
and the service was impressively read by Dr. Grant.

Jane Austen

#9. After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

Evan Esar

#10. When I was thirteen, I wed a crofter's daughter. Or so I thought her. I was blind with love for her, and thought she felt the same for me, but my father rubbed my face in the truth. My bride was a whore Jaime had hired to give me my first taste of manhood.

George R R Martin

#11. Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.

William Goldman

#12. Theodore Rex. Roosevelt was driven by ambition, idealism and vanity. As his daughter famously remarked: My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.

Margaret MacMillan

#13. Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new - She parts from love which hath still been true.

Martha Finley

#14. The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

Vincente Minnelli

#15. I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.

Charles Barkley

#16. After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.

John Vane

#17. I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

Angela Carter

#18. So you killed my father? You killed my bride?" he growled.
"She wasn't even your woman."
Why did everyone feel the need to remind him of that?

Chelsea Fine

#19. Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.

Neale Donald Walsch

#20. When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

Madeleine L'Engle

#21. Showing someone they were amazing and worth some attention and effort could be done in a moment, but the impact could last a lifetime.

Erin Nicholas

#22. Joffrey received loving kisses from the bride's father and his two new brothers, Loras and Garlan. No one seemed in any great rush to kiss Tyrion. When the king and queen had taken their seats, the High Septon rose to lead a prayer.

George R R Martin

#23. It's funny when people ask if I'm a lesbian. I played a real estate agent in 'Father of the Bride, Part II,' but no one has asked me if I sell real estate.

Nora Dunn

#24. you are
as fleetingly beautiful

as a mother's tears
and a father's pranks

a brother's bachelorhood
and a best friend's bad mood

a bride's glittering jitters
and a handsome stranger's smile.

Sanober Khan

#25. as I watched their approach I wondered whether the slow pace of a wedding march was for the benefit of a bride on her most beautiful day, or for the aging father preparing to give her away.

Nickolas Butler

#26. The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.

Tom Brokaw