Dad Quotes

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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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  Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Fathers Day, Children

  Bill Cosby (1989). “Selected from Fatherhood and Time Flies”, Signal Hill Publications

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

  John Walter Bratton

  Daughter, Hero, First Love

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

  Anne Geddes

  Relationship, Father, Men

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• And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Mistake, Unconditional Love

  "Obama talks of fatherhood". "Obama talks of fatherhood" by Mj Lee, www.politico.com. June 18, 2011.

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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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• The greatest gift I ever had
  Came from God; I call him Dad!

  John Walter Bratton

  Fathers Day, Father Son, Father And Son

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• We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Royal Truths, etc".

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

  Euripides

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Mother And Daughter

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

  Gloria Naylor

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Mother And Daughter

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

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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, Real

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• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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• The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

  Jean Paul

  Family, Children, Father

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.17

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• Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.

  Brad Pitt

  Book, Taken, Kids

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

  Kent Nerburn

  Fathers Day, Father Son, Fatherhood

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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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• It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

  Dawn French

  Beautiful, Daughter, Father

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• A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

  Steve Martin

  Fathers Day, Baby, Parenting

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• To her, the name of father was another name for love.

  Fanny Fern

  Daughter, Fathers Day, 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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• Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

  Homer

  Father, Son

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• You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Father, Trying

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