Father Son Quotes - Page 2

• He who can be a good son will be a good father.

  Unknown

  Father, Son, Good Father

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• I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

  Gordon Brown

  Father, What Matters, Nothing Matters

  2003 Following the birth of his son. Quoted in the Observer, 19 Oct.

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• Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

  Al Unser

  Funny, Family, Boyfriend

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• A father should be his son's first hero, and his daughters first love.

  Unknown

  Daughter, Father, Hero

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• Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

  Adam Sandler

  Boyfriend, Father, Feel Good

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• Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

  Mike Myers

  Fathers Day, Falling In Love, 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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• The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.

  Angelo Patri

  Children, Father, Journey

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• One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

  Unknown

  Father, Son, Night

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• The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.

  Daniel Pearce

  Children, Father, Treats

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Fathers Day, Mother, Dad

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• When my father didn't have my hand, he had my back.

  Unknown

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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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• That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

  August Strindberg

  Funny, Boyfriend, Fathers Day

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Son of a Servant”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Wise, Fathers Day

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

  Epictetus

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

  Pam Brown

  Family, Song, Dad

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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, Fatherhood

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2013

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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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• I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

  Harrison Ford

  Father, Son, Opportunity

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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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• Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Father, Son, Guests

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• It's hard to kill that father-son bond.

  Adam Driver

  Father, Son, Hard

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• I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

  Dave Mustaine

  Dad, Father, School

  Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

  Thomas Ken

  Father, Son, Blessing

  "Awake my soul, and with the sun" (hymn) (1695)

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