Fathers Day Quotes - Page 4

• Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

  Kent Nerburn

  Heart, Son, Love Is

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.21, New World Library

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• For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

  Alan Valentine

  Son, Hands, Years

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• Never love anything that can't love you back.

  Bruce Williams

  Love, Teenage, Daughter To Father

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• My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Motivational, Dad

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• Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

  Gloria Naylor

  Mother Daughter, Dad, Mother And Daughter

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.185, Open Road Media

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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

  Son, Earth, Being A Father

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

  Euripides

  Mother Daughter, Dad, Mother And Daughter

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• He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.

  Margaret Truman Daniel

  Daughter, Growing Up, Dad

  "On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.

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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, Mother, Father Son

  Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.108, Doubleday

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

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Dad, Humor

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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

  Song, Children, Dad

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from May 09, 2012

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• My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

  Tiger Woods

  Husband, Dad, Role Models

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• Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'this is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

  Michael Gurian

  Men, Boys, Culture

  "102 years later, it's a new day for dads" by Nicholas K. Geranios, www.today.com. June 1, 2012.

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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

  Dad, Father Son, Fatherhood

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• For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

  Homer

  Dad, Son, Father

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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, Baby

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Dad, Son, Wish

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

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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

  Dad, Father Son, Games

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

  Denis Waitley

  Work, Careers, Best Job

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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, Believe

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• If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Dad, Humor

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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, Dad, Humor

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

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• The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

  Timothy J. Russert

  Family, Dad, Father Son

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• I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what
  my father taught by example in one week.

  Mario Cuomo

  Marriage, Dad, Parenting

  Time Magazine, June 02, 1986.

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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, Dad, Humor

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

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