Fathers Day Quotes - Page 6

• Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Book, Fatherhood, Instruction

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• A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Baby, Men, Made

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• Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

  Vance Havner

  Dad, Home, Sleep

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• Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.

  Unknown

  Dad, Father Son, Fatherhood

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• I'm probably the most uncool guy that [my daughters] know-as far as they are concerned anyway-'cause I'm Dad. I mean dads just aren't cool-especially when I dance! They don't want me to dance.

  Tim McGraw

  Daughter, Dad, Mean

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• I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

  Al Roker

  Dad, Kids, Three

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• That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Mean People, Delight

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.446

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Mother, Dad, Parenting

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• Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.

  Dave Barry

  Mother, Passion, Commitment

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• I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

  Ann Richards

  Dad, College, Feelings

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• You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

  Erika Cosby

  Family, Dad, Together

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• By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Hurt, Couple, Pain

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

  Imelda Marcos

  Girl, Daughter, Dad

  TIME magazine, November 11, 1996.

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• I'm always going to love my father.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Dad, Father

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

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• Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

  Margaret Mead

  Boyfriend, Dad, Social

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Harold A. Minden "Two Hugs for Survival" (p. 22), 1982.

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• Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Children, Dad

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• Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

  Guy Lombardo

  Daughter, Strong, Teenage

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• I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 11 years ago - crawling along, miles under the speed limit, feeling the weight of my daughter's future resting in my hands. I think about the pledge I made to her that day: that I would give her what I never had - that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father. I knew that day that my own life wouldn't count for much unless she had every opportunity in hers.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Dad, Home

  "Obama: 'I have been an imperfect father'" by Barack Obama, www.today.com. May 27, 2010.

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• What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Dad, Children, Emotional

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• "Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

  Aeschylus

  Mother, Law, Three

  "The Suppliants". Play by Aeschylus,

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• I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.

  Louis C. K.

  Dad, Mistake, Kids

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• I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

  Will Arnett

  Dad, Kids, Son

  "'Parks and Recreation' star Amy Poehler and husband Will Arnett expecting second child" by Christina Everett, www.nydailynews.com. March 17, 2010.

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• My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

  Luther Vandross

  Mother, Stairs, Lifts

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• My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Children, Dad

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

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• I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.

  Tom Cruise

  Dad, Responsibility, Giving

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