Happy Fathers Day God Quotes - Page 2

• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

  William Shakespeare

  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

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• I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

  Sigmund Freud

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

  Euripides

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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• 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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• I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

  Yehuda Berg

  Fathers Day, Voice, Certainty In Life

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• When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

  Helen Hayes

  Beautiful, Daughter, Fathers Day

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• Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

  Solomon

  Fathers Day, Mother, Your Mom

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• The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

  Austin O'Malley

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Dad

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• Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Fathers Day, Dad, Believe

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• Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

  Tom Wolfe

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Dad

  Tom Wolfe (2002). “The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel”, p.446, Macmillan

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• When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'

  Jan Hutchins

  Fathers Day, Dad, Kids

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• If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

  James A. Baldwin

  Fathers Day, Son, Earth

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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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• Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

  William Graham Sumner

  Fathers Day, Encouragement, Believe

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

  Paul Walker

  Girl, Mom, Fathers Day

  "Paul Walker: 'I Come from a Family of Thrill Seekers'". Parade Magazine Interview, parade.com. March 30, 2009.

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• It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mothers Day, Mom, Fathers Day

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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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• 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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• You can do anything you want to do.

  Estelle Getty

  Father Son, Want, Zombieland

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• One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

  George Herbert

  Fathers Day, Son, Enough

  George Herbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1862). “The Works of George Herbert ... Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, etc”, p.315

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• Thank you Dad...
  for listening and caring,
  for giving and sharing,
  but, especially, for just being you!
  Happy Birthday to you

  John Walter Bratton

  Dad, Caring, Giving

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