Father Quotes - Page 7

• You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

  Lynn Johnston

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

  Solomon

  Fathers Day, Mother, Your Mom

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• My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mother, Dream, Dreams From My Father

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

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• A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids.

  Michael Forest

  Kids, Snapshots, Currency

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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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• 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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• My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

  Antonio Porchia

  Childhood, Half, Century

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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

  Fanny Fern

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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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, Dad, Trying

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• When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

  Robert Bly

  Boyfriend, Children, Dad

  Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.59, Da Capo Press

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• People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Girl, Daughter, Fathers Day

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

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• I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

  John Malkovich

  Boyfriend, Dad, Standards

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• A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

  Michael Bergin

  Powerful, Disappointment, Tools

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

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• I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.

  Jay-Z

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Feelings

  "Jay-Z to headline and curate his own Made in America festival" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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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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• My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

  Janis Joplin

  Boyfriend, Dad, House

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• The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Family, Mothers Day, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Allsop (1836). “Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes”, p.23

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• One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

  Camryn Manheim

  Memories, Dad, Arms

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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, Dad

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

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• Brothers and sisters, as good as our previous experience may be, if we stop asking questions, stop thinking, stop pondering, we can thwart the revelations of the Spirit. Remember, it was the questions young Joseph asked that opened the door for the restoration of all things. We can block the growth and knowledge our Heavenly Father intends for us. How often has the Holy Spirit tried to tell us something we needed to know but couldn't get past the massive iron gate of what we thought we already knew?

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Brother, Block, Past

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Fathers Day, Mother, Dad

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• So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

  Nick Cannon

  Boyfriend, Dad, Tears

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• My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

  Chief Joseph

  Fathers Day, Eye, People

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• My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

  Victor Borge

  Mother, Dad, Tears

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• What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.

  Benny Hinn

  Faith, Jesus, Believe

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