Fathers Day Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Dad, Father Son

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.308, Feminist Press at CUNY

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

  Erika Cosby

  Family, Dad, Together

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Mother, Dad, Parenting

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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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• 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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• 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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• Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

  Solomon

  Mother, Your Mom, Despise

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Wise, Children

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

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• Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're a regular guy.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Humor, Ties

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• When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

  Stephen Spender

  Dream, Horse, Children

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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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