Happy Fathers Day Greetings Quotes

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

Denis Waitley

Fathers Day, Work, Careers

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

Bill Cosby

Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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

Euripides

Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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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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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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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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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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A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

Billy Graham

Inspirational, Fathers Day, Father Son

Twitter post from Jun 16, 2013

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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Steve Martin

Fathers Day, Baby, 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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Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

Margaret Ann Courtney

Daughter, Father, Glee

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My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

Michael Jordan

Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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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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