Happy Fathers Day God Quotes

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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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• Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

  Austin O'Malley

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Dad

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• Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Fathers Day, Dad, Believe

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• One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

  Ben Okri

  Fathers Day, Courage, Adversity

  "Ben Okri: My family values". Interview with Juliet Rix, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2010.

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• It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mothers Day, Mom, Fathers Day

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• And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

  William Penn

  Family, Fathers Day, Wisdom

  "Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims".

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• A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Fathers Day, Dad, Land

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• A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

  William Graham Sumner

  Fathers Day, Encouragement, Believe

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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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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• I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

  Paul Walker

  Girl, Mom, Fathers Day

  "Paul Walker: 'I Come from a Family of Thrill Seekers'". Parade Magazine Interview, parade.com. March 30, 2009.

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• I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

  Mario Cuomo

  Inspirational, Dad, Hard Work

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

  Michael Jordan

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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

  Solomon

  Fathers Day, Mother, Your Mom

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• I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Fathers Day, Kids

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• If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

  James A. Baldwin

  Fathers Day, Son, Earth

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• Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

  Wade Boggs

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

  Helen Hayes

  Beautiful, Daughter, Fathers Day

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• I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

  Yehuda Berg

  Fathers Day, Voice, Certainty In Life

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• You can do anything you want to do.

  Estelle Getty

  Father Son, Want, Zombieland

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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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• You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr

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• Thank you Dad...
  for listening and caring,
  for giving and sharing,
  but, especially, for just being you!
  Happy Birthday to you

  John Walter Bratton

  Dad, Caring, Giving

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• One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

  George Herbert

  Fathers Day, Son, Enough

  George Herbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1862). “The Works of George Herbert ... Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, etc”, p.315

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