"I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm."
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"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them."
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"A father carries pictures where his money used to be."
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"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
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"Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work."
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"It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons."
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"My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter."
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"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
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"My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me."
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"My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work."
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"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."
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"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
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"Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name."
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"I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that."
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"Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later."
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"Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen."
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"Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten."
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"To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he'd removed the iron sliver I thought I'd die from. I can't remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face."
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