Quotes about fatherhood - Quodid

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

—Joseph Joubert

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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

—Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.

—Reed Markham

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I gathered my shoes and wallet on the other side of the metal detector and took a last glance at my father, who was still there, still waving.That mangled finger had always been a symbol of his shortcomings and deformities to me, but now I saw it was also a testament to all that he'd sacrificed for our family.He'd lost that trigger finger building the business that had fed and clothed me. I imagined he was not only waving me goodbye but waving me forward with that symbol of his own woundedness.

—Shozan Jack Haubner

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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

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