Jun 18, 2006

Fathers Day Quotations

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To all Fathers, much Love on your Special Day !!!

Quotations For Fathers Day

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

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

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

You only appreciate your father the day you become a father yourself.
— Anonymous

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.
— Al Unser, Jr.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
— William Shakespeare

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
— Sigmund Freud

Dad - Ask him when Mom says no.
— Author Unknown

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
— George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
— Authur Unknown

To her the name of father was another name for love.
— Fanny Fern

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
— Clarence B. Kelland

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
— Robert Frost

A father is a banker provided by nature.
— French Proverb

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

It matters not that Time has shed
His thawless snow upon your head,
For he maintains, with wondrous art,
Perpetual summer in your heart.
— William Hamilton Hayne

Children are poor men's riches.
— Anonymous Proverb

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world-so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.
— Victoria, Queen of England

Have yourself a great Father's Day!

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