My Dad Quotes

• I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, 'My dad can beat up your dad.' I'd say 'Yeah? When?'

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Motivational, Dad

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

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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 was my father who taught me to value myself.

  Dawn French

  Father, Taught, Being A Dad

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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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• Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

  William Hurt

  Boyfriend, Hurt, Dad

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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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• Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fathers Day, Dad, Rip

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• A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Fathers Day, Dad, Men

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 15, 2014

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• Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

  Michael Reagan

  Boyfriend, Dad, Father

  Michael Reagan, Joe Hyams (1988). “On the outside looking in”, Zebra Books

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• Nowadays you can't even spank your kids. No, gotta give 'em a time out. My dad would take time out of his busy day... to whip our ass.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dad, Kids, Giving

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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 greatest gift I ever had
  Came from God; I call him Dad!

  John Walter Bratton

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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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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• I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

  Halle Berry

  Dad, Father, Men

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• My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

  Beau Bridges

  Boyfriend, Teacher, Dad

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

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• A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

  Frank A. Clark

  Funny, Dad, Father

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• My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Dad, Father

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• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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• It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

  Dawn French

  Beautiful, Daughter, Dad

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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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• When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

  Hugh Jackman

  Daughter, Mother, Running

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

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• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  Garrison Keillor

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Running

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

  Al Unser

  Funny, Family, Boyfriend

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