Father's Day Quotes and a Verse...

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!! If you missed yesterday's post,
please read it. It's important, especially if you have an elderly parent.

As an idea, how about printing out today's quotes and tucking them into your
dad's card today? I hope everyone is having a great weekend! Sending joy
and love to all the dads out there and especially to my dad, D. F., whom I
love dearly! These quotes are dedicated to you, Dad. Love you, Daddeeooo!!
Val =)

Quotes and a Verse for Father's Day

"Train up a child in the way which he should go and when
he is old he will not depart from it."
- Proverbs 22:6

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"Father! - to God Himself we cannot give a holier name."
- William Wordsworth
Y

"It is not flesh and blood, but the heart, which makes us
fathers and sons."
- Johann Schiller
Y

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

"When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper
things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and
blurted, 'She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.'"
- Helen Hayes
Y

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

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly
stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was
astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
- Mark Twain
Y

"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
Y

"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child."
- Knights of Pythagoras
Y

"I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich."
- Colonel Potter on M*A*S*H
Y

"Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet."
- George Washington
Y

"Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young,
who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents
that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee."
- Margaret Courtney

- Dedicated to my Dad, D. F., I love you, Dadddeeeoo!

Quotes and a Verse for Father's Day...

Quotes and a Verse for Father's Day

"Honor thy father and thy mother."
- Matthew 19:19
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"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
- William Shakespeare
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"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand
to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
- Mark Twain
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"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
- George Herbert
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"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."
- Ruth E. Renkel
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"Any man can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad."
- Anne Geddes
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry."
- A Jewish Proverb
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"Are we not like two volumes of one book?"
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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"One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God,
Make me the kind of man my daddy is. Later that night, the father
prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be."
- Author Unknown
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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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"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to
love their mother."
- Henry Ward Beecher
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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 Wadsworth
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"It doesn't matter who my father was;
it matters who I remember he was."
- Anne Sexton





Idea: I will be posting fun and funny dad quotes tomorrow.
Why not print out these quotes and/or tomorrow's and tuck
into your dad's card for Father's Day. Val =)