Inspirational Father Quotes

• It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

  Kent Nerburn

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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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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• 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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• 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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• My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

  Steve Young

  Fathers Day, Dad, Responsibility

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• Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

  Anne Geddes

  Relationship, Dad, Father

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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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• 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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• You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

  Wally Schirra

  Fathers Day, Dad, Hero

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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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• I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Family, Daughter, Fathers Day

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• I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Strong

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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