Fathers Day Card Quotes

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Lydia M. Child

Family, Fathers Day, Children

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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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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

William Shakespeare

Fathers Day, Dad, Son

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

Family, Wise, Meaningful

'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 2, l. [83]

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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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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

Love, Funny, Motivational

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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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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A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

Billy Graham

Inspirational, Fathers Day, Father Son

Twitter post from Jun 16, 2013

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Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

David Gottesman

Daughter, Fathers Day, Mother

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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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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Robert Orben

Family, Fathers Day, Mother

Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.108, Doubleday

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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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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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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Ernest Hemingway

Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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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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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 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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Bill Cosby

Funny, Fathers Day, 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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The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

Timothy J. Russert

Family, Fathers Day, Dad

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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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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S. Truman

Funny, Leadership, Witty

Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955

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Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

Jon Stewart

Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

"Late Night with Conan O'Brien", January 29, 2009.

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