Fathers Quotations
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| A father carries pictures where his money used to be. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. | |||
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| Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| 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. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! | |||
| - Lydia Maria Child | |||
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| Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. | |||
| - Bill Cosby | |||
| My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ! | |||
| - Bill Cosby | |||
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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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| He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. | |||
| - Clarence Budington Kelland | |||
| 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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| My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century. | |||
| - Antonio Porchia | |||
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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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| Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale. | |||
| - Victoria Secunda | |||
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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 | |||