Father Quote

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
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
~Clarence Budington Kelland
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A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands
are empty.
~Author Unknown
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
~William Wordsworth
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one
or the other.
~Joseph Joubert
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.
~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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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
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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
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Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
~Ruth E. Renkel
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
~Author Unknown
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The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back
from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey
and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old
road.
~Angelo Patri
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My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
~Kent Nerburn,
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are
not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly
heard at the end and by posterity.
~Jean Paul Richter
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Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. ~Author
Unknown
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The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
~Author Unknown
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I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy
twinkling in my heart.
~Adabella Radici
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Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly
discussing the lesson. "Do you believe there is a devil?" asked one.
"No," said the other promptly. "It's like Santa Claus: it's your
father."
~Ladies' Home Journal, quoted in 2,715 One-Line Quotations for
Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs by Edward F. Murphy
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
~Author Unknown
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers
sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a
boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his
own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love,
adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have
something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep
a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.
~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
~Gloria Naylor
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Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.
~Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers, 1992
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Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being
children.
~Cindy Garner
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Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an
alternative dialogue.
~Louise J. Kaplan, Oneness and Separateness: From
Infant to Individual, 1978
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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, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
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There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he
doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus.
~Author Unknown
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
~Bill Cosby
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly
stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was
astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874

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One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a
male parent.
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A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a
first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers,
ancestors.

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One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate
care, counsel, or protection.
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A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called
also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a
profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.

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The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the
Trinity.

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To make one's self the father of; to beget.

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The child is father of the man.
William Wordsworth
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I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.
Brian Littrell
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The Child is the father of the Man.
William Wordsworth
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I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he
left the world of boxing.
James E. Jones
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I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.
Placido Domingo
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“One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the
kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God,
Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.”
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“A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all
through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same.
How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years
ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they
change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in
1921. 1879-1955)
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“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I
never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell
stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.”
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who
brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)

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“Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble”
Yiddish Proverb quotes
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“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an
opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good
example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make
her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher,
Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)

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“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch
him do it.”
Clarence B. Kelland quotes (American Writer, 1881-1964)
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“Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad”
Proverb quotes
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“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic
as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to
our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there
are no words to express.”
Joseph Addison quotes (English Essayist, Poet, Dramatist and Statesman, 1672-1719)
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“I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I
think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in
what He has refused me.”
Lewis Carroll quotes (English Logician, Mathematician, Photographer and
Novelist, especially remembered for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1832-1898)

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“Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than
being a father to my children.”
Bill Cosby quotes (American Actor, Comedian and Producer. b.1937, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
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“Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity,
and knowledge is the midwife”
Jonathan Schattke quotes
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“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little
father.”
Gloria Steinem quotes (American Writer and Activist. b.1935)
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“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty
with the son who neglects them.”
Confucius quotes
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“To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary
to the Christian life as prayer.”
Martin Luther quotes
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“No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his
mother's affair.”
Margaret Turnbull quotes

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“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”
Hippocrates quotes
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“I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my
finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.”
Rodney Dangerfield quotes (American Comedian, 1921-2004)
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“A properly kept silence is a beautiful thing; it is nothing less
than the father of very wise thoughts”
Diodicus quotes
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“They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games
does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand
'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How
much money does his father make?' Only from”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes (French Pilot, Writer and Author of 'The
Little Prince', 1900-1944)
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“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your
brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame
yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if
you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as
simple as that, isn't it?”
Juicy1181 Katharine Hepburn quotes (American actress)
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“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty
years what my father taught me by example in one week.”
Mario Cuomo quotes
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“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly
stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was
astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“That's the interesting thing about becoming a father. Suddenly you
universally have something in common with other people. I can be sitting
next to a very straight, humorless businessman or stockbroker type on an
airplane and we'll just start talking about kids. And that conversation
last three or four hours.”
Johnny Depp quotes (American film Actor. b.1963 Owensboro, Kentucky,
USA)
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“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason
for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food
trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! You mother was a hamster
and your father smelt of elderberries!”
mojomonkey77 Monty Python quotes (Creators and stars of the television
comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus.)

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“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.”
The Princess Bride quotes
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“They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I
can't even talk the way these people talk: "Why you ain't," "Where you
is?" . . . I blamed the kid, until I heard the mother talk. . . . And
then I heard the father talk. Everybody knows it's important to speak
English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind
of crap coming out of your mouth!”
Bill Cosby quotes (American Actor, Comedian and Producer. b.1937,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

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“He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for
his mother.”
erius225 Saint Augustine quotes
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“My father gave me these hints on speech-making: "Be sincere... be
brief... be seated."”
James Roosevelt quotes
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“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a
widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the
immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here
every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence”
Joseph Roux quotes (French artist, 1725-1793)
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“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
aziza Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher
and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)

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“Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching
up with Mother Nature.”
Harold Coffin quotes

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“I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never
to love anything that cannot love you back.”
Imelda Marcos quotes
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“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found
in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and
Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)

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“Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make
the father of knowledge a serpent-slimy, sneaking and abominable.”
Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of
American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
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“My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never
have to work a day in your life.”
Jim Fox quotes
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“One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good
enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest
grandchild in the world.”
Proverb quotes
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“Lord Denethor is Boromir's father. To bring him news of his
beloved son's death would be most unwise. And don't mention Frodo or the
ring. And say nothing of Aragorn either. In fact, it's best if you don't
speak at all, Peregrin Took.”
santiz J.R.R. Tolkien quotes (English Writer and Author of richly
inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings, 1892-1973)