Father Son Quotes - Page 6

• I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the most interesting part.  He said, “What happened then, daddy?”  I said, “If you learn to read, you can find out.  I'm too tired to read.  I'll read to you tomorrow.”  So, he had a need to want to learn how to read.  Don't teach children how to read.  Don't teach them mathematics.  Give them a reason to want it.  In school, they're working ass-backwards.

  Jacque Fresco

  Motivational, Children, Reading

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• My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

  Unknown

  Dream, Father, Son

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• Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.

  Unknown

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• Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

  Robert Orben

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.108, Doubleday

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• It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

  Gertrude Stein

  Funny, Father, Son

  Everybody's Autobiography ch. 2 (1937)

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• With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

  Brad Pitt

  Father, Son, Connections

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• Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

  Conrad Hall

  Boyfriend, Fathers Day, Dad

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• My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Boyfriend, Father, Rocks

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• I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

  Mario Cuomo

  Inspirational, Dad, Hard Work

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.

  Margaret Atwood

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Father, Son, Loss

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• I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mother, Dream, Father

  FaceBook post by Liza Minnelli from Jun 19, 2016

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• Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Father

  "A New Egalitarian Life Style". www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1971.

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• There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

  Dean Koontz

  Dad, Father, Alcohol

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• [My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

  Arthur Koestler

  Father, Distance, Pride

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  Father, Failure, 4th Of July

  Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

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• It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.308, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

  John Green

  Fathers Day, Pride, Proud

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• I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

  Will Arnett

  Fathers Day, Dad, Kids

  "'Parks and Recreation' star Amy Poehler and husband Will Arnett expecting second child" by Christina Everett, www.nydailynews.com. March 17, 2010.

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• There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Children, Father, Moving

  Joni Eareckson Tada (1993). “A Quiet Place in a Crazy World: Drawing Near to God Through Prayer and Praise”, Multnomah

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• No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

  Croesus

  Motivational, Peace, Father

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• There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

  John Gregory Brown

  Running, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

  John Gregory Brown (2001). “Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

  Guy Lombardo

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong

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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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• If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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