Dad Quotes - Page 4

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

  Kent Nerburn

  Fathers Day, Father Son, Fatherhood

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• The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Family, Father

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't think it was going to be this fun. But everything just gets heightened when you have a baby. The volume gets turned up on life. I never knew I could be this happy, and that's the truth.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Baby, Fun, Thinking

  "Jimmy Fallon And Baby Winnie Cover ‘People’ In Matching Suits" By Jessica Samakow, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2014.

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• There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

  Maureen Reagan

  Daughter, Father, Heaven

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• A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Children

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Father, Wayne, Daddy

  Twitter post from Jul 30, 2011

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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, Men, Father Son

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 15, 2014

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Fathers Day, Rip, Inspire

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

  Homer

  Fathers Day, Son, Father

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• 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. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be.

  Kent Nerburn

  Father, Heart, Son

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• Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

  Jim Bishop

  Daughter, Being Single, Funny Relationship

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• I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

  Sidney Poitier

  Fathers Day, Father Son, Fatherhood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

  Anthony Quinn

  Children, Father, Thinking

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• Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

  Hugh Jackman

  Fathers Day, Sleep, Parenting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

  Bill Watterson

  Mom, Believe, History

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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• Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won't take away your manhood; it will give it to you.

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Ideas, Giving

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• The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

  Anais Nin

  Children, Father, Men

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• My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

  Pete Rose

  Fathers Day, Father Son, Practice

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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, Fathers Day, Humor

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

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• There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

  Will Smith

  Fathers Day, Kids, Black

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• I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Happy, Fathers Day, Humorous

  "R.I.P. Rodney Dangerfield", www.indiewire.com. October 6, 2004.

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• Your children need your presence more than your presents.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Birthday, Family

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, 'My dad can beat up your dad.' I'd say 'Yeah? When?'

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Motivational, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

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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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