Happy Fathers Day Greetings Quotes

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Enid Bagnold

Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Baby

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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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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, Fathers Day, Mother

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

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

Pope John XXIII

Fathers Day, Children, Dad

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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, Fathers Day, Father Son

Twitter post from Jun 16, 2013

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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, Fathers Day, Children

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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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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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When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'

Jan Hutchins

Fathers Day, Dad, Kids

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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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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Confucius

Fathers Day, Dad, Children

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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Steve Martin

Fathers Day, Baby, Dad

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Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

Margaret Ann Courtney

Daughter, Father, Glee

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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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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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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

Lord Chesterfield

Inspirational, Funny, Fathers Day

Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.239, Oxford University Press

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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

Ben Okri

Father, Adversity, Tranquil

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

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Princess Diana

Inspirational, Family, Money

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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

Marlene Dietrich

Fathers Day, Kings, Dad

Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.45, Open Road Media

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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

Tom Wolfe

Inspirational, Fathers Day, Dad

Tom Wolfe (2002). “The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel”, p.446, Macmillan

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You can do anything you want to do.

Estelle Getty

Father Son, Want, Zombieland

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Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

Homer

Family, Money, World And Love

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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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