Father Quotes - Page 5

• My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

  Yancy Butler

  Mother, Hypocrite, Thinking

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• For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

  Homer

  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

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• I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

  Chief Joseph

  Dad, Hands, Land

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• My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

  David Rockefeller

  Dad, Tears, Pioneers

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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, Feel Good, Trying

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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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• My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Mother, Artist, Views

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

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• I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Boyfriend, Tears, Lifestyle

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• Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

  Angela Carter

  Dad, Aeneas, Ruins

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr

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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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• 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 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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• I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

  Norma Shearer

  Mother, Parenting, Taught

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

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• Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.

  Marco Rubio

  Husband, Practice, President

  Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.politico.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

  Wade Boggs

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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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, Dad, House

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• I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Fathers Day, Kids

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• She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Family, Beauty

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• Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

  Louis C. K.

  Fathers Day, Running, Home

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• My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

  Dexter Scott King

  Dad, Vanity, Said

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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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• I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Kids, House, Bottles

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• It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Boyfriend, Daughter, Tears

  "Fables (Book III)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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• My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Good Morning, Discovery, Law

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