Famous Father Quotations
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Essay title: Famous Father Quotations
"I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood."
~ Homer Simpson/Matt Groening, 'The Simpsons'
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
~ Theodore Hesburgh, clergyman/university president
"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son"
~ The Talmud
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
~ Anne Sexton, poet
"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, baseball player
"She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."
~ Groucho Marx, comedian
"It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping."
~ John Sinor, author
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
~ William Shakespeare, 'The Merchant of Venice'
"Wow, it's like I died and went to heaven, then God realized it wasn't my time yet, so He sent me back to a brewery."
~ Pete Griffan/Seth McFarlane, 'Family Guy'
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
~ Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist
"It is much easier to become a father than to be one."
~ Kent Nerburn, theologian/author
"It is easier to govern a kingdom than to rule a family."
~ Chinese proverb
"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child."
~ Knights of Pythagoras, mentoring network
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