Father's Day Quotes

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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Joseph Stalin The Memoirs of Stalin's former secretary (1992)

Be grateful for the highs — and be grateful for the lows — 'cause it's in the lows where you learn.

Suzanne Somers

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought (1914)

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell History of the Anti-Corn Law League (1853)

And all the time they seem to think themselves patterns — models of husbands and fathers.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

I started life with two great advantages: no money, and good parents.

Margaret Thatcher

Gratitude is the vision of the Gives, not of the gift-it comes from God Himself.

Al-Qushayri The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

Parents—so essential yet sometimes like something you have stepped in and cannot get off your shoe. What else is there but to love them?

Jeffrey Ford The Empire of Ice Cream (2006)

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Jane Fonda

In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don’t have books written about them have it easier.

Jaroslav Kalfař Spaceman of Bohemia (2017)

His choice here, no one else to blame. Sometimes, he thought, life was easier when you had people to stop you. Maybe that was something parents were good for.

Guy Gavriel Kay Ysabel (2007)

In the last 30 years, Croatia managed to achieve great things and Russia was always there when it was necessary, so thank you once again for that.

Gordan Grlić-Radman Gordan Grlić-Radman (2022)

You ask how it is possible
To be your own father and son.
You should seek answers,
Although it is better to anticipate some,
To be the light and dream.

Dejan Stojanovic The Shape (2000)

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

Boris Yeltsin Interview on Russian television (2000)

The only group in America that ought to be the final arbiters, the only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing, and then judge its worth... are parents.

Jack Valenti

My father considered that anyone who went to chapel and didn't drink alcohol was not to be tolerated. I grew up in that belief.

Richard Burton

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude...we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

Montesquieu Lettres Persanes (1721)

A ban does not solve the underlying problem behind it. We have to reach out to parents and make sure girls are empowered to make their own choices. At the same time, women who voluntarily choose to wear a headscarf should not be disadvantaged.

Annette Widmann-Mauz

Parents can best exert influence through local authorities

Margaret Thatcher

I thought what father said. Oh god he said. And only eight.

Richard Matheson Born of Man and Woman (1950)

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