Father

Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand.

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Happy is the father whose child finds his attempts to amuse it amusing.

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The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

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What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.

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He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

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You know when you're young, you think your dad's Superman. Then you grow up and you realize he's just a regular guy who wears a cape.

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Some eighty thousand years are supposed to have existed between paleolithic and neolithic man. Yet in all that time he only learned to grind his flint stones instead of chipping them. But within our father's lives what changes have there not been The railway and the telegraph, chloroform and applied electricity. Ten years now go further than a thousand then, not so much on account of our finer intellects as because the light we have shows us the way to more. Primeval man stumbled along with peering eyes, and slow, uncertain footsteps. Now we walk briskly towards our unknown goal.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.

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A chip off the old block.

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

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My father was often angry when I was most like him.

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Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

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