| The most important thing a
father can do for his children is to love their
mother. -Theodore Martin Hesburgh |
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It's only when you grow up,
and step back from him, or leave him for your
own career and your own home - it's only then
that you can measure his greatness and fully
appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. - Margaret
Truman
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| Of all nature's gifts to the
human race, what is sweeter to a man than his
children? - Cicero (106-43 BC) |
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| A daddy is a man who has photos
in his wallet where his money used to be. |
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A father is a source of strength,
A teacher & a guide,
The one his family looks up to
With loving trust & pride. . .
A father is a helper
With a willing hand to lend,
A partner, an advisor,
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A Father means so many things...
A understanding heart,
A source of strength and of support
Right from the very start.
A constant readiness to help
In a kind and thoughtful way.
With encouragement and forgiveness
No matter what comes your way.
A special generosity and always affection, too
A Father means so many things
When he's a man like you... |
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Any man can be a father,
but it takes someone special to be a Daddy! |
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My finger may be small
but I can still wrap my Daddy around it. |
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There is no place higher
than on Daddy's shoulders. |
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Dad - a son's first hero,
a daughter's first love. |
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Daddy, some day I will
meet my prince charming but you will always
be my king! |
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Blessed indeed is the
man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
- Lydia M. Child |
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By profession, I am a
soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am
prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father.
- General Douglas MacArthur |
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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 |
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A Dad is someone you never
outgrow your need for.
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A Dad is someone to look
up to no matter how tall you've grown.
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A Dad is your biggest
fan, even when you strike out. |
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Dad, your guiding hand
on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
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A father is neither an
anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us
there, but a guiding light whose love shows
us the way. |
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The father who does not
teach his son his duties is equally guilty as
the son who neglects them. - Confucius
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Fathers are men who give
daughters away to other men who aren't nearly
good enough...so they can have grandchildren
who are smarter than anybody's. |
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Happy is the father whose
child finds his attempts to amuse it, amusing.
- Robert Lynd |
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I could not point to any
need in childhood as strong as that for a father's
protection. - Sigmund Freud |
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I never had a chance to
choose the man to be my Dad - But I sure thank
my lucky stars for the taste my Mother had. |
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I'm as lucky as can be,
for the world's best dad belongs to me. |
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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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Mommy would never divorce
Daddy. He's just like one of the family. - Bill
Keane |
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My father 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 taught me to
be independent and cocky and free thinking,
but he could not stand it if I disagreed with
him. - Sara Maitland |
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Simple walks with my father
around the block on summer nights when I was
a child did wonders for me as an adult. |
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Sometimes the poorest
man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
- Ruth E. Renkel |
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There's a bathroom in
heaven for the father of girls. |
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A truly rich man is one
whose children run into his arms when his hands
are empty. |
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When my father died and
my two brothers and I sat down to talk about
him, we discovered that we were talking about
three different men - and I had never met the
other two.
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We are so peculiarly constituted
that it is easier to be a large hero than a
small martyr: a father would willingly risk
his life to save his child from a burning building,
but not give up his afternoon of golf to take
the child to the zoo. Yet it is the small sacrifices,
multiplied many times, that give love more meaning
than the heroic gesture in a crisis.
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My Father When I Was...
4 years old: My daddy can do anything.
5 years old: My daddy knows a whole lot.
6 years old: My dad is smarter than your dad.
8 years old: My dad doesn't know exactly everything.
10 years old: In the olden days when my dad
grew up, things were different.
12 years old: Oh, well, naturally, Father doesn't
know anything about that. He is too old to remember
his childhood.
14 years old: Don't pay attention to my Father.
He is so old-fashioned!
21 years old: Him? My Lord, he's hopelessly
out-of- date.
25 years old: Dad knows a little bit about it,
but then he should because he has been around
so long.
30 years old: Maybe we should ask Dad what he
thinks. After all, he's had a lot of experience.
35 years old: I'm not doing a single thing until
I talk to Dad.
40 years old: I wonder how Dad would have handled
it. He was so wise and had a world of experience.
50 years old: I'd give anything if Dad were
here now so I could talk this over with him.
Too bad I didn't appreciate how smart he was.
I could have learned a lot from him.
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What Are Fathers Made
Of? - Paul Harvey
A father is a person that is forced to endure
childbirth without an anaesthetic,
A father is a person that growls when he feels
good...and laughs out loud when scared half
to death,
A father never feels worthy of the worship in
a child's eyes.
He's never quite the hero his daughter thinks,
never quite the man his son believes him to
be, and this worries him,
So he works too hard to try and smooth the rough
places in the road for those of his own who
will follow him.
A father is a person who gets angry when the
first school grades aren't as good as he thinks
they should be,
He scolds his son...though he knows it's the
teacher's fault.
Fathers are persons that give daughters away
to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so
they can have grandchildren who are smarter
than anybody's.
Fathers make bets with insurance companies about
who'll live the longest.
One day they lose...and the bet's paid off to
the part of them they leave behind.
I don't know where a father goes when he dies.
But I've an idea that after a good rest...he
won't just sit on a cloud and wait for the girl
he loved and the children she bore.
He'll be busy there, too...repairing the stairs...oiling
the gates...improving the streets...smoothing
the way.
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A father is someone who
can take the place of all others, but whose
place no one else can take.
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Dad knows best, but no
one listens. |
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I'm the boss (Mum said
so!) |
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Happiness is having a
Dad like you. |
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Dads are special, especially
mine. |
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The Strength of a Man
The strength of a man isn't seen in the width
of his shoulders
It's seen in the width of his arms that circle
you.
The strength of a man isn't in the deep tone
of his voice,
It's in the gentle words he whispers.
The strength of a man isn't how many buddies
he has,
It's how good a buddy he is with his kids.
The strength of a man isn't in how respected
he is at work,
It's in how respected he is at home.
The strength of a man isn't in how hard he hits,
It's in how tender he touches.
The strength of a man isn't in the hair on his
chest,
It's in his heart...that lies within his chest.
The strength of a man isn't how many women he's
loved,
It's in how he can be true to one woman.
The strength of a man isn't in the weight he
can lift,
It's in the burdens he carries. |
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Daddy
A daddy and his daughters, walking hand in hand,
Though he can't spend much time with them,
They say they understand.
When he's at work or on a trip, the memory of
him lingers,
The two girls smile, they know they have him
Wrapped around their fingers.
A slight tilt of their pretty heads, a smile,
a lowered glance,
A hug and kiss and, "Daddy please?"
He doesn't stand a chance!
In later years he will recall, with tenderness
and love,
Two charming girls, with hands in his,
Two blessings from above.
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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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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 honour
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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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, Letters
to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994 |
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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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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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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. |
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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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Dad makes the decisions
– and Mum tells him if he's right. |
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If dad says no, ask the
boss. |
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The Measure of a Father
- A man is loved not for how tall he stands
but for how often he bends to help, comfort
and teach |
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A loving father teaches
by example precious lessons that his children
learn by heart |
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| My father gave me the greatest
gift anyone could give another person - he believed
in me. |
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| Dad thank you for your nurturing
light, for the wisdom of your laughter, and
all the joy you bring us. |
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| You tickled my toes....checked
for monsters , showed me the stars....And taught
me how to reach them...I love you Dad. |
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| I'm as lucky as can be because
the worlds best dad belongs to me. |
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You've taught me so much,
I've watched how you live -
how you chase after life,
You inspire me to greater things
Dad you are my inspiration. |
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God made you my DAD
LOVE made me your FRIEND. |
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