Father Quotes - Page 8

• Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

  William Hurt

  Boyfriend, Hurt, Dad

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• There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Children, Grandpa

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1343, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

  Charley Pride

  Boyfriend, Dad, Saws

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• You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Funny, Mother

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

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• To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Children, Son

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• One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

  Ben Okri

  Fathers Day, Courage, Adversity

  "Ben Okri: My family values". Interview with Juliet Rix, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2010.

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• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Family, Sister

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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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• Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Believe, Qualms About, Scratches

  Phyllis McGinley (1968). “Wonders and surprises: a collection of poems”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, September 1990.

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• Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

  Naveen Jain

  Fathers Day, Inspiration, Pride

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 21, 2016

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• The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Dad, Credit

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "Freedom versus Authority in Education"

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• I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, May, Merchant Of Venice

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1216, Oxford University Press

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• My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Brother, Dad, Want

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

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• I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.

  Ted Demme

  Mother, Daughter, Son

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

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

  George Eliot

  Son, Giving, Chance

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

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• It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

  Kent Nerburn

  Fathers Day, Dad, 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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• Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

  Chris Martin

  Fathers Day, Dad, Kids

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• For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

  Alan Valentine

  Fathers Day, Son, Hands

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• The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

  Clayton Christensen

  Jesus, Son, Trying

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• My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Men, Meat, Bakers

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• Children learn to smile from their parents.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Smile, Children, Parenting

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• I owe my father everything.

  Robert Carlyle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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