Happy First Fathers Day Quotes

• Are we not like two volumes of one book?

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

  Anne Sexton

  Death, Daughter, Fathers Day

  "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

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• Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

  Jimmy Piersall

  Inspirational, Baseball, Fathers Day

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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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• 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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• Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

  Mike Myers

  Fathers Day, Falling In Love, Dad

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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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  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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• 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 found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.

  Louis C. K.

  Fathers Day, Dad, Mistake

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• Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

  George Eliot

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

  Woody Allen

  Fathers Day, Enthusiasm, Incompetence

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• Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Fathers Day, Children

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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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• 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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• Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  George Eliot

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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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

  Fathers Day, Song, Dad

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• There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Fathers Day, Song, Children

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from May 09, 2012

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

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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

  John Walter Bratton

  Daughter, Dad, Hero

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