Best Father Quotes - Page 2

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

  Kent Nerburn

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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

  Erika Cosby

  Family, Fathers Day, Dad

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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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• 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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• The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock - full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I took such months to get.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Phyllis McGinley (1968). “Wonders and surprises: a collection of poems”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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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• 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, Fathers Day, Dad

  Time Magazine, June 02, 1986.

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

  Anne Geddes

  Relationship, Dad, Father

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

  Euripides

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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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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• 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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• Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

  Louis C. K.

  Fathers Day, Running, Home

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• Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fathers Day, Dad, Rip

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• A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

  Frank Abagnale

  Fathers Day, Husband, Real

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

  Timothy J. Russert

  Family, Fathers Day, Dad

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• And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

  William Penn

  Family, Fathers Day, Wisdom

  "Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims".

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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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