Best Dad Quotes

• My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Sarcastic, Daughter, Dad

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• I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

  Umberto Eco

  Fathers Day, Dad, Believe

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

  Lydia M. Child

  Family, Fathers Day, Children

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• Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

  William Wordsworth

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.307

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• Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

  Anne Geddes

  Relationship, Dad, Father

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• A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

  Billy Graham

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Father Son

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2013

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• The greatest gift I ever had
  Came from God; I call him Dad!

  John Walter Bratton

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Basketball, Daughter

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

  George Herbert

  Relationship, Daughter, Fathers Day

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168

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

  Pope John XXIII

  Fathers Day, Children, Dad

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• My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Life, Fathers Day, Children

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  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

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

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

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• He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.

  Margaret Truman Daniel

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Growing Up

  "On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.

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• Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

  John Walter Bratton

  Daughter, Dad, Hero

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• Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Fathers Day, Gratitude, Jobs

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• You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Father, Years, Style

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• If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The only Father's Day tradition in my family is the annual conversation he and I have where I say, 'Hey, Dad, what do you want for Father's Day this year?' and he says, 'Nothing.' Then I ask my mom what I should get him and she says, 'He likes sandalwood soap, dangly jewelry and Chanel No. 5 perfume.'

  Michael Showalter

  Mom, Fathers Day, Dad

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• There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Fathers Day, Song, Children

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from May 09, 2012

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• There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.

  Bob Phillips

  Funny, Christmas, Dad

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• Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

  Jon Stewart

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

  "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", January 29, 2009.

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• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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• Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe

  Tom Wolfe

  Dad, Children, Father

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• I'm working from home a lot. That's very unusual because I'm away a lot, sometimes working on the other side of the world for long periods of time. So, it's hard to manage in the sense that I want to be the best dad I can be but it's almost harder when you have your kids outside the door.

  Andy Serkis

  Dad, Home, Kids

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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