Fathers Day Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1.

  Connie Schultz

  Dad, Grilling, My Sister

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• On this special Fathers Day, we'd like to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday.

  Ralph Kiner

  Funny, Baseball, Special

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

  Erika Cosby

  Family, Dad, Together

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• When you have kids, there's no such thing as quality time. There's just time. There's no, 'Ooh, his graduation's better than going to the mall.' It's all kind of equal. Changing her diaper and her winning a contest - it's all good.

  Chris Rock

  Dad, Kids, Winning

  "Sweetest Quotes from Hollywood Dads" by Luchina Fisher, abcnews.go.com. June 15, 2014.

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• To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

  Michael Beschloss

  Boys, People, History

  "Authors speak out on the Kennedy mystique". www.cnn.com. July 19, 1999.

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• In times of trouble you can count on your self. In times of disaster you can count on your friends. In times of sorrow you can count on your Father.

  William C. Richardson

  Self, Sorrow, Trouble

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• My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Daughter, Country, Men

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2005). “The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble

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• Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.

  Laurance Rockefeller

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Men

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• Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the 70s, Fathers Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Fathers Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

  Art Alexakis

  Mom, Dad, Children

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• Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.

  Pam Brown

  Clever, Dad, Fatherhood

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• There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dad, Struggle, Son

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.494

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• In a normal family, a surprise means presents, cake and a party. For me ? I had no idea. And my family, doing something nice is seen as an attack. When I was nine, I 'attacked' my father with a fathers day gift. A visor organiser for his car, because it was useful. And it rhymed. Visor. Organiser. I was nine.

  Christopher Titus

  Nice, Party, Mean

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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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• "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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• 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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• My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

  George V

  Inspirational, Mother, Children

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• You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it.

  Derek Williams

  Children, Real, Mistake

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• I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Father Son, Special, Fatherhood

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• The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Country, Dad, Twilight

  "ZZ top" by Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2004.

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

  Chief Joseph

  Father, Eye, People

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• Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Mother

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• What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Father, Dull

  Mary Mapes Dodge (2012). “Hans Brinker”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

  Michael Foot

  Fatherhood, Taught, Influence

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