The Best Famous Fathers Day Quotes
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A Favorite of 100 users
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 HubbardSeptember 7, 2002 by Anonymous in Fathers Day ID#:4981 -
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A Favorite of 89 users
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
- Sigmund FreudDecember 11, 2000 by None in Fathers Day ID#:1344 -
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A Favorite of 49 users
Fathers, be good to your daughters
You are the God and weight of her world- John Mayer, "Daughters"January 10, 2005 by depplover in Fathers Day ID#:29606 -
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A Favorite of 40 users
The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.
- Tim RussertSeptember 16, 2004 by Louise in Fathers Day ID#:22940 -
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A Favorite of 21 users
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice (Launcelot at II, ii)December 11, 2000 by None in Fathers Day ID#:1342 -
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A Favorite of 15 users
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
- Ruth E. RenkelMay 10, 2004 by aschrage in Fathers Day ID#:17065 -
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A Favorite of 12 users
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 the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark TwainMay 10, 2004 by aschrage in Fathers Day ID#:17067 -
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A Favorite of 12 users
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example."
- Mario CuomoMay 10, 2004 by aschrage in Fathers Day ID#:17072 -
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A Favorite of 6 users
"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
- Gabriel García MárquezMay 10, 2004 by aschrage in Fathers Day ID#:17071 -
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A Favorite of 5 users
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 CosbyDecember 11, 2000 by None in Fathers Day ID#:1348