Wonderful quotes to celebrate wonderful dads.
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2. "'Why do men like me want sons?' he wondered. 'It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.'" —John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
3. "A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us." —Émile Gaboriau, File No. 113
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5. "There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself." —John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
6. "There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it." —George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
7. "It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived." —Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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