The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich
~ M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."
~ Aeschylus
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Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!!
~ Philip Whitmore Snr
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"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."
~ Mario Cuomo
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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
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Fathers are angels sent from heaven.
~ Unknown
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"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
~ Robert Frost
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A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.
~ Anonymous
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"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular."
~ Robert Frost
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"Father I will always be
that same boy who stood by the sea
and watched you tower over me
now I'm older I wanna be the same as you"
~ Yellowcard
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"A father is a banker provided by nature."
~ French Proverb
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ Elizabeth Stone
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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 M. Gottesman
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A father is someone that
holds your hand at the fair
makes sure you do what your mother says
holds back your hair when you are sick
brushes that hair when it is tangled because mother is too busy
lets you eat ice cream for breakfast
but only when mother is away
he walks you down the aisle
and tells you everythings gonna be ok
~ Unknown
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"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
~ Sigmund Freud
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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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"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
~ Homer
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I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.
~ Bartrand Hubbard
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"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother."
~ Friedrich Nietzche
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~ Gloria Naylor
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"A wise son maketh a glad father."
~ Proverbs
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
~ William Shakespeare
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"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all."
~ J. August Strindberg
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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
~ Confucius
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"An angry father is most cruel towards himself."
~ Publilius Syrus
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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
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"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."
-- Unknown
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If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.~ Bill Cosby
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
~ Sigmund Freud
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You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.~ Erika Cosby
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A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
~ Knights of Pythagoras
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Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.~ Margaret Courtney
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My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman.
My father was a saint. I'm not.
~ Indira Gandhi
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How true Daddy's words were when he said: "All children must look after their own upbringing." 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
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4 years: My Daddy can do anything!
7 years: My Dad knows a lot…a whole lot.
8 years: My father does not know quite everything.
12 years: Oh well, naturally Father does not know that either.
14 years: Oh, Father? He is hopelessly old-fashioned.
21 years: Oh, that man-he is out of date!
25 years: He knows a little bit about it, but not much.
30 years: I must find out what Dad thinks about it.
35 years: Before we decide, we will get Dad's idea first.
50 years: What would Dad have thought about that?
60 years: My Dad knew literally everything!
65 years: I wish I could talk it over with Dad once more.
~ Unknown
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.~ Sigmond Freud
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
~ Lee Iacocca
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.~ Gabriel García Márquez
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It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
~ Pope John XXIII
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It is a wise child that knows his own father.~ Homer
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Noble fathers have noble children.
~ Euripides
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
~ Author Unknown
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If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.
~ Chinese Proverb
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It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
~ Kent Nerburn
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"Train up a child in the way which he should go
and when he is old he will not depart from it"
and when he is old he will not depart from it"
~ Proverbs
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
~Lydia M. Child
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He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.~ William Penn
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.
~ Author Unknown
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
~ Anne Sexton
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
~Johann Schiller
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That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.~ J. August Strindberg
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.~ Alan Valentine
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.~ Henry Ward Beecher
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"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."~ Charles Wadsworth quotes
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"Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough"~ Wilhelm Busch
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"It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him"~ Mark Twain
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"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family" ~ Anthony Brandt
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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
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"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope" ~ John Ciardi
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"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf." ~ Bertrand Russell
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"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right."~ Bill Cosby
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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
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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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"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." ~ George Herbert
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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
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"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" ~ Lydia M. Child
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"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents." ~ Margaret Mead
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"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."~ Marlene Dietrich
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"My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either."~ Madonna
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"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." ~ Sigmund Freud
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"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." ~ Anne Sexton
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"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."~ Ruth E. Renkel
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry." ~ William Shakespeare
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"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all."~ August Strindberg
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"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."~ Aziza Friedrich Nietzsche
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"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care." ~ William Penn
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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
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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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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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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. ~ George Herbert
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~ Bill Cosby
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.~ William Wordsworth
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!~ Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.~Johann Schiller
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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
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~ Author Unknown
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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
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.~ Elizabeth Stone
