Father's Day
Quotes
The most important
thing a father can do for his children is to love their
mother.
-Henry Ward
Beecher
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It is a wise child that knows his own father.
-Homer
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
-William
Shakespeare
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that God
governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten
that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need
His assistance.
-Benjamin Franklin
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And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but
bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
-Ephesians 6:4
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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish
to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable
pattern may not be lost to the world.
-Helen Rowland
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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 man knows he is growing old because he begins to look
like his father.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children, how much more shall your Father who
is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?"
-Matthew 7:11
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If the new American fathers feel bewildered and even
defeated, let them take comfort from the fact that
whatever they do in any fathering situation has a fifty
percent chance of being right.
-Bill Cosby
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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,
Swedish writer
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I
remember he was.
-Anne Sexton, U.S. poet.
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One father is more
than a hundred schoolmasters.
-English proverb (17th century)
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the
need for a fathers protection.
-Sigmund Freud
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