Fathers Day Quotes - Page 9

• Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

  Martin Mull

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

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

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• Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Death, Children, Dying

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.117, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Being Chinese immigrants in the United States, it was important for my parents to maintain ties that went back a long time. They led by example. My dad didn't bring his work pressures home. We were always aware of them and would go as kids to his office and run around. But when he came home, he was able to leave things behind, at least from our perspective, and focus on us.

  Chien Chung Pei

  Running, Dad, Home

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• During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and said, 'As long as you're in this house, being president is my second most important job'.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Dad, School

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• He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Dad, Land, Safe

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• I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart
  Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dad, Heart, Tears

  Song: My Father's House, Album: Nebraska, 1982

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• My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

  Pete Rose

  Dad, Father Son, Practice

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• Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

  Joseph Addison

  Birthday, Mother Daughter, Mother And Daughter

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

  John Green

  Pride, Father Son, Proud

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• What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Son, Daddy, Secret

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.83, Vintage

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• Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

  Maria Sharapova

  Dad, My Dad

  "A journey from Russia to finals" by Bruce Jenkins, www.sfgate.com. July 3, 2004.

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• I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

  Elton John

  Song, Dad, My Son

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• My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

  Natasha Josefowitz

  Daughter, Dad, Believe

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• Those who trust us educate us.

  George Eliot

  Education, Teaching, Ethics

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

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• If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

  Ray Romano

  Hug, Accountants, Accounting

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• The most amazing feeling I feel
  Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real
  Maybe I paint the sky blue
  My greatest creation was you.

  Jay-Z

  Dad, Real, Sky

  "Beyonce And Jay-Z Working On New Albums", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength.

  David Platt

  Fall, Night, Enabling

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• I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.

  Eugene Mirman

  Baby, Dad, Drinking

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• Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Teenager

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• My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

  Bob Dylan

  Home, Wife, World

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.128, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

  Cameron Diaz

  Dad, School, Fighting

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• Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

  Agnes Smedley

  Family, Mother, Kissing

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• Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.

  Jack Baker

  Dad, Fatherhood, Way

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• My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

  Roberto Benigni

  Mother, Grateful, Parenting

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• A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

  Solomon

  Wise, Mother, Grief

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