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Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'this is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'
Sep 17, 2025
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
You can do anything you want to do.
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.
Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.
There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
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.'
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'
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.
Being popular is the most important thing in the world!
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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