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Dad Quotes
"One father is more important than a hundred schoolmasters." --George Herbert "For rarely are sons similar to their father: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers." -- Homer "Until you have a son of your own...you will never know the joy, the love beyond the feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son.” --Kent Nerburn "Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless." --Mother Teresa "The more kids appreciate the outdoors, the easier it is to kick them out of the house when they turn 18." --Nathan Greenberg "If you don't consider your child's education important, why should they?" --Nathan Greenberg "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love his mother." --Henry Ward Beecher "Don't let anyone call you 'Mr. Mom'. You're a Dad and proud of it!" --Nathan Greenberg "One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade." --Chinese proverb "Treasure your families - the future of humanity passes by way of the family." --Pope John Paul II "He who has a daughter is always a shepherd." --Proverb "You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if its just in your own eyes." --Walter M. Schirra, Sr. "Oh, my son's my son till he gets a wife. But my daughter's my daughter all her life." --Dinah Mulock Craik "Its easier to beat a child than to raise it." --Morgan Freeman as Detective Somerset, Se7en "We need fathers to understand that their work doesn't end with conception." --President Barack Obama "To become a father is not hard. To be a father is however." --Wilhelm Busch "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." --Clarence Budington Kelland "Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." --Ruth E. Renkel