Happy Father's Day Quotes
Happy Fathers Day Quotes
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.-William Shakespeare*******************
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.-Euripides
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I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.-Dante Hall
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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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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.-Samuel Johnson
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers-.Aldous Huxley
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The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.-Austin O’Malley
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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 Wadworth
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Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.-Anonymous
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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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My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.-Josefowitz
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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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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.-Imelda Marcos
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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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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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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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“When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it’s a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what’s happening. She becomes what’s happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.
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“If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.” — Antonio Gramsci