Daddy Quotes

• 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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• Having a kid is great... as long as his eyes are closed and he's not moving or speaking.

  Adam Sandler

  Moving, Kids, Eye

  "Big Daddy". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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

  John Walter Bratton

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

  Anne Sexton

  Death, Daughter, Fathers Day

  "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

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

  John Walter Bratton

  Daughter, Dad, Hero

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• There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.

  Bob Phillips

  Funny, Christmas, Dad

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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, Dad, Men

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 15, 2014

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• Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look.

  Mary Martin

  Mother, Angel, Looks

  mary martin (1976). “my heart belongs”

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• What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

  Princess Diana

  Family, Boys, Littles

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

  Gloria Naylor

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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

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• A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fathers Day, Kings, Dad

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)

  Sherman Alexie

  Games, Play, Drunk

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.173, Random House

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• Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

  William Wordsworth

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.307

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

  Steve Martin

  Fathers Day, Baby, Dad

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• I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wire, Politics, Pay

  Remarks at Gridiron Dinner,Washington, D.C., 15 Mar. 1958.

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

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Dad, Father, Wayne

  Twitter post from Jul 30, 2011

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• When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.

  Jerry Lewis

  Fathers Day, Zoos, Dad

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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, Dad

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• Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Mills, Take Me, Mysterious Benedict Society

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• What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fathers Day, Son, Secret

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.83, Vintage

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• Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

  Coretta Scott King

  Inspiring, Kings, Parenting

  "The Christian Science Monitor" Newspaper, July 2, 1974.

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