Father Son Quotes - Page 3

• 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, Dad

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

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• You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

  Michael Reagan

  Dad, Father, Son

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Fathers Day, Dad, Men

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 15, 2014

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• God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.

  Wayne Grudem

  Father, Son, Three

  Wayne A. Grudem (2014). “Bible Doctrine: Essential Teachings of the Christian Faith”, p.120, Zondervan

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• I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Mother, Father

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• Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

  Charles Peguy

  Father, Son, Hands

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

  Anne Sexton

  Death, Daughter, Fathers Day

  "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

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• I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

  Dante Hall

  Boyfriend, Fathers Day, Son

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• It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

  George Eliot

  Father, Son, Giving

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.139, Booklassic

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• Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.

  Unknown

  Fathers Day, Dad, Fatherhood

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• The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

  Mencius

  Positive, Christmas, Wisdom

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The works of mencius”, p.198

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• The imprint of the father, remains forever on the life of the child.

  Unknown

  Children, Father, Son

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• What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Son, Men

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

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• Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Trust, Husband

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.95, Lulu.com

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• For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.

  Alan Valentine

  Loyalty, Fathers Day, Son

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• Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Trust, Cutting, Gambling

  Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne”

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• Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise),.4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  Unknown

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

  Unknown

  Father, Son, Giving

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• I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

  Sidney Poitier

  Fathers Day, Dad, Fatherhood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Fathers Day, Special, Fatherhood

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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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• The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.

  Unknown

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• I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.

  Louis C. K.

  Fathers Day, Dad, Mistake

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

  David Gottesman

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Mother

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

  Jon Stewart

  Fathers Day, Dad, Fatherhood

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

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