Some of The Best Quotes From History's Greatest Dads
The father of all fathers bullying the skies at a 2010 Hot Air Balloon festival in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. Figures.
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This Father’s Day, we elected to hit you with something nice and easy, yet, like a little too much sauce, good and heavy to digest.
No long winded intro this time, let’s just get right to it.
You’re about to read a curated list of what we think are the best, wisest, most life-changing quotes delivered by history’s greatest dads (some of which were said to their sons).
Hope you guys especially enjoy this one.
And say hi to your father, okay?
“You cannot hide forever, Luke.”
— Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker, in Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi. Sound like too simple of a line to highlight? Think again: Underpinning such seemingly basic dialogue is a father’s desire to see his son rise to the challenge — even if it means being slain by the kid in a duel. Does it get any more poetic?
“When I win awards, I think of my father.”
— Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. This one’s from son to dad, but technically Cristiano’s a dad, too, so it counts.
“Ah man, your mother and I would’ve never moved to this neighbourhood if we knew you needed a gun to walk the damn street…When I was growin' up, this was all the protection we needed.
You win some, you lose some, but you live. You live to fight another day. And you think you're a man with that gun in your hand, don't you?”
— Mr. Jones, otherwise known as Craig’s dad in the legendary Friday movies of the ‘1990s in which Ice Cube starred. Sadly, John Witherspoon — the man who played Mr. Jones and countless other roles — left us in 2019 at 77.
“Never strike a child — my father never struck me, but my mother sometimes spanked me good!”
— Bruce Lee. Taken from the 2000 book Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom For Daily Living.
The legend himself (and master of the six-inch punch), Bruce Lee, alongside his late son, Brandon.
Miss you fellas.
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