Happy First Fathers Day Quotes - Page 2

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

Denis Waitley

Fathers Day, Work, Careers

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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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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.

Jim Gaffigan

Fathers Day, Song, Children

FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from May 09, 2012

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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Ernest Hemingway

Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Steve Martin

Fathers Day, Baby, Dad

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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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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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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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Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

Mike Myers

Fathers Day, Falling In Love, Dad

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Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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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 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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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

Family, Wise, Meaningful

'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 2, l. [83]

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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Friedrich Schiller

Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Lydia M. Child

Family, Fathers Day, Children

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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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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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My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

Steve Young

Fathers Day, Dad, Responsibility

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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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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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