Various quotes about fathers and why they are a gift from God

1. Father's Day Ideas - Fathers
Are a Gift From God
Various quotes about fathers and
why they are a gift from God
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2. Fathers are a voice of wisdom.
• 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
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3. • Fathers represent another way of looking at life – the
possibility of an alternative dialogue. ~Louise J.
Kaplan, Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to
Individual, 1978
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4. • When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so
ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man
around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was
astonished at how much he had learned in seven
years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to
Mark Twain
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5. Fathers are examples for youth
• He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me
watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
• I love my father as the stars – he’s a bright shining
example and a happy twinkling in my heart.
~Terri Guillemets
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6. Fathers inspire youth to greatness.
• Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says
must inspire one or the other. ~Joseph Joubert
• The words that a father speaks to his children in the
privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as
in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the
end and by posterity. ~Jean Paul Richter
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7. A Father’s true wealth is found in his children.
• A truly rich man is one whose children run into his
arms when his hands are empty. ~Author
Unknown
• Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children
the richest inheritance. ~Ruth E. Renkel
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8. • A father carries pictures where his money used
to be. ~Author Unknown
• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love
most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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9. Fathers are a gift from God
The greatest gift I ever had Came from God;
I call him Dad! ~Author Unknown
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