Happy Fathers Day God Quotes

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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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Harmon Killebrew

Family, Fathers Day, Mother

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

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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Gloria Naylor

Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.185, Open Road Media

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

Bill Cosby

Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

Lord Chesterfield

Inspirational, Funny, Fathers Day

Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.239, Oxford University Press

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore Hesburgh

Love, Inspirational, Funny

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And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

William Penn

Family, Fathers Day, Wisdom

"Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims".

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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

Ben Okri

Father, Adversity, Tranquil

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

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

Chelsea Clinton

Fathers Day, Dad, Land

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Clarence Budington Kelland

Life, Fathers Day, Children

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It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Pope John XXIII

Fathers Day, Children, Dad

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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert

Relationship, Daughter, Fathers Day

George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168

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Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

Denis Waitley

Fathers Day, Work, Careers

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Friedrich Schiller

Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Jim Valvano

Inspirational, Basketball, Daughter

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There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

Alison Lohman

Fathers Day, Men, Father Son

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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Confucius

Fathers Day, Dad, Children

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Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

John Walter Bratton

Daughter, Dad, Hero

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The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!

John Walter Bratton

Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Steve Martin

Fathers Day, Baby, Dad

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

Family, Wise, Meaningful

'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 2, l. [83]

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