For when you just can’t seem to craft the right words.
Picking the rightgifts for dadcan be a challenge (may we suggest someFather’s Day books?
to your dad or grandfather’s face.
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Its the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
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Barack Obama
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
George Herbert
“Son, brother, father, lover, friend.
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Terri Guillemets
The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.
Tim Russert
“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”
Antoine Francois Prevost
“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely.”
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And he said, ‘You never know what you could accomplish until you try.'”
Remember: What Dad really wants is a nap.
Dave Barry
Raising a child is like wrestling a small but relentless opponent.
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Charles Wadsworth
“Be nice to your dad.
Most of fatherhood feels like going through customs with an outdated passport.”
It means being comfortable with the word hero."
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Ryan Reynolds
“Being a great father is like shaving.
No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.”
Reed Markham
“Fatherhood is great because you’re able to ruin someone from scratch.”
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“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”
Marinela Reka
“A little girl giggles when she is denied an ice-cream by her mother.
She knows daddy will get her some later.”
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Show the father to your kids how much you adore him with one of these sentimental quotes.
“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”
“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“To the world you are a dad.
To our family you are the world.”
Send them one of these wise and witty quotes to usher them into the Dad Club.
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“An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom.”
Lewis,Phantastes
“When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.”
The Talmud
“My father didn’t tell me how to live.
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He lived and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
“Lately all my friends are worried that they are turning into their fathers.
I’m worried I’m not.”
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Kent Nerburn
“My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss.
“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
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