Dad Quotes - Page 5

• Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.

  Brad Pitt

  Book, Taken, Kids

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• You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face
  and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.

  John R. Rice

  Christmas, Spiritual, Children

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• If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

  Mike Singletary

  Jobs, Growing Up, Jail

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• A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

  Steve Martin

  Fathers Day, Baby, Parenting

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• Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

  Homer

  Father, Son

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• That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.

  Russell Simmons

  Fatherhood, Important, Remember

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• You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Father, Trying

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• To her, the name of father was another name for love.

  Fanny Fern

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Father Son

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• A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

  Enid Bagnold

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Baby

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• Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

  Margaret Mead

  Boyfriend, Fathers Day, Social

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Harold A. Minden "Two Hugs for Survival" (p. 22), 1982.

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• I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Brother, Two, Equal

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• The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

  Jean Paul

  Family, Children, Father

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.17

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• A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

  Euripides

  Dream, Sweet, Lost

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• The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

  Austin O'Malley

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Men

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• If you love your dad, it’s tough when he dies. If you don’t like your dad, it’s tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn’t get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.

  Jimmy Iovine

  Love You, Guy, Missing

  "Jimmy Iovine: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2013.

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• The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

  Timothy J. Russert

  Family, Fathers Day, Father Son

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• Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Growing Up, Humor

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, February 4, 2003.

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• I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.

  David Harewood

  Mother, Distance, Long

  "David Harewood: My family values". Interview with Busola Evans, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Kids really need love from two parents. It doesn't matter if it's a mom and a mom, or a dad and a dad.

  Brendon Ayanbadejo

  Mom, Kids, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• To be a dad: Make peace with the fact that you will now be your partner's second favourite person in the world.

  Chris Ramsey

  World, Favourite, Making Peace

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

  John Ciardi

  Hope, Father, House

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• I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

  Wayne Rooney

  Mean, Son, Role Models

  "Wayne Rooney: I've Given it all up for Kai, Coleen and World Cup Glory". www.mirror.co.uk. May 9, 2010.

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• Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.

  Nick Burd

  Taken, Humanity, Problem

  Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.94, Penguin

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• Fathers teach their best lessons to their children
  by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.

  Lynda Lovejoy

  Children, Father, Adversity

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