Father's Day Quotes

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And you thought to rob me of my son too, and bring him up to be a dirty Yankee tradesman, or a low, beggarly painter?"
"Yes, to obviate his becoming such a gentleman as his father.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

Jay London

I'd like to thank my parents for providing me with a high IQ & I'd like to thank my grams for encouraging me not to be a self absorbed idiot

Frances Bean Cobain

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart Disputed

We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perenninal, like the music of the spheres.

William Mackergo Taylor Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

You will meet and become acquainted with your eternal Mother, the wife of your Father in Heaven… How could a Father claim His title unless there were also a Mother to share that parenthood?

Joseph Smith Jr. Attributed

A good father lives so he is a credit to his children.

Arnold Glasow Attributed

Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.

Arnold Glasow Attributed

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