Happy First Fathers Day Quotes - Page 2

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Euripides

Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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

Denis Waitley

Fathers Day, Work, Careers

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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Steve Martin

Fathers Day, Baby, Dad

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

Alison Lohman

Fathers Day, Men, Father Son

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

Lydia M. Child

Family, Fathers Day, Children

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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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The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; it's just full all the time.

Matt Damon

Inspirational, Heart, Way

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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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