Father Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  Garrison Keillor

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Running

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• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

  Imelda Marcos

  Girl, Daughter, Fathers Day

  TIME magazine, November 11, 1996.

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• Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dad, Doe, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

  Mitt Romney

  Anniversary, Mom, Morning

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Climbing, Walking Meditation

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• Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe

  Tom Wolfe

  Dad, Children, Men

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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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• Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Persistence, Brave, Have Faith

  "A Bright Idea: Rescue the Incandescents" by Ken Blackwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.

  Paul Harvey

  Daughter, Grandchildren, Men

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• Everything I do and say tells a story of who I am serving. If I am acting out of anger and spite, I am serving the father of darkness and spreading his darkness. If I am honoring to the Lord with my actions, I am serving to further the name of Jesus and spreading His light.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Inspirational, Christian, Jesus

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Mar 01, 2014

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• That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

  August Strindberg

  Funny, Boyfriend, Fathers Day

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Son of a Servant”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

  Lee Iacocca

  Friendship, Cute, Relationship

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.137, Bantam

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• Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

  Kid Rock

  Fathers Day, Dad, Helping

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Jun 16, 2013

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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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• My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

  Damon Wayans

  Dad, Block, Guy

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• I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

  Aaron Neville

  People, Catholic, Religion

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• Noble fathers have noble children.

  Euripides

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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• When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Dad, Humor

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• You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

  Erika Cosby

  Family, Fathers Day, Dad

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• My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Dad, Humor

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• All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

  George Eliot

  Alphabet, Ends, Paid

  "Mill on the Floss". Volume I,

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• To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Parenting

  "A New Egalitarian Life Style". www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1971.

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