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Some of the world's greatest fathers said some of the world's greatest things!
| | "My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person. He believed in me." - Jim Valvano |
| | "My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'" - Harmon Killebrew |
| | "When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed." - Lou Brock |
| | "Ideally, they should give you a couple of 'practice kids' before you have any for real. Sort of like bowling a few frames for free before you start keeping score. Let you warm up." - Paul Reiser |
| | "Fatherhood, for me, has been less a job than an unstable and surprising combination of adventure, blindman's bluff, guerrilla warfare and crossword puzzle." - Frederic F. Van De Water |
| | "A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society." - Billy Graham |
| | "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." - Charles Wadsworth |
| | "My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect." - Ivy Baker Priest |
| | "There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence." - Samuel Johnson |
| | "If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." - Bill Cosby |
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