Happy Fathers Day Mom Quotes

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Jim Valvano

Inspirational, Basketball, Daughter

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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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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Milton Berle

Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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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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A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Funny, Family, Mothers Day

Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

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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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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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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

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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 mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

Gaspard Mermillod

Relationship, Mothers Day, Mom

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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Bill Cosby

Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Family, Mothers Day, God

William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Sigmund Freud

Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Steve Martin

Fathers Day, Baby, Dad

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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

Sam Levenson

Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

Al Unser

Funny, Family, Boyfriend

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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

Rajneesh

Mom, Mother, Baby

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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Gloria Naylor

Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.185, Open Road Media

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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Abraham Lincoln

Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert

Relationship, Daughter, Fathers Day

George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168

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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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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.

Clarence Budington Kelland

Fathers Day, Gratitude, Jobs

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I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

Mark Wahlberg

Fathers Day, Brother, Uncles

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

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