Fatherhood Quotes - Page 4

• Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Determination, Desire, Kingdoms

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Being a dad is my most important job because it not only affects my children, but their children and many generations to come.

  Mark Dominik

  Jobs, Children, Dad

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• Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

  Tom Wolfe

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Dad

  Tom Wolfe (2002). “The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel”, p.446, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

  John Gregory Brown

  Running, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

  John Gregory Brown (2001). “Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Fathers Day, Mother, Dad

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• My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Dad, Father

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• The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Mom, Fathers Day

  Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr

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• You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr

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• My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

  Indira Gandhi

  Funny, Success, Leadership

  "Taking Charge : Every Woman's Action Guide to Personal, Political and Professional Success". Book by Joan Steinau Lester )p. 76), 1996.

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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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• My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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• Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

  Martin Mull

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

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

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• Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

  Mitt Romney

  Anniversary, Mom, Morning

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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

  Maureen Reagan

  Daughter, Dad, Father

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• I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

  Nat King Cole

  Father, Impossible, Scared

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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, Father

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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 watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

  Mario Cuomo

  Inspirational, Dad, Hard Work

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mothers Day, Mom, Fathers Day

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• Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

  Derek Fisher

  Inspirational, Basketball, Jobs

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• I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

  Umberto Eco

  Fathers Day, Dad, Believe

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Dad, Father

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