Fathers Day Quotes

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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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• 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, Father Son, Fatherhood

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2013

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  Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Children, Dad

  Bill Cosby (1989). “Selected from Fatherhood and Time Flies”, Signal Hill Publications

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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, Children, Dad

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• I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

  T. D. Jakes

  Spiritual, Men, Want

  "Interview: Bishop TD Jakes on Hell, Politics, Film Projects". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. June 19, 2011.

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• We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Royal Truths, etc".

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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, Mother, Brother

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

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• Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

  Epictetus

  Teacher, Teaching, Son

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving.

  Sheldon Glueck

  Father, Delinquency, Strict

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• It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

  Pope John XXIII

  Children, Dad, Real

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• The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

  Solomon

  Children, Integrity, Blessed

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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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• 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

  Dad, Believe, Parenting

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

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

  Anne Sexton

  Death, Daughter, Dad

  "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

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• Noble fathers have noble children.

  Euripides

  Funny, Dad, Children

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

  William Wordsworth

  Dad, Father Son, Names

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

  John Walter Bratton

  Dad, Father Son, Father And Son

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

  Steve Martin

  Baby, Dad, Parenting

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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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• Don't confuse [Father's Day] with Valentine's Day, and here's why. Boy, will you creep him out. I can just tell you from last year, uh, even if they do like chocolate, they don't want it from their son.

  Jon Stewart

  Valentine, Son, Boys

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• The most important thing in the world is family and love.

  John Wooden

  Love, Family, Education

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• It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.

  Larry Christenson

  Children, Law, Morality

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• It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, September 1990.

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