Fathers Day Quotes

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.

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.'

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

Never love anything that can't love you back.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a person more fearless and courageous than my father ... The thing that I admire most about my dad is his genuine Christian character. He is a man of real integrity, deeply committed to moral and ethical principles. He is conscientious in all of his undertakings ... If I had a problem I could always call Daddy.

On this special Fathers Day, we'd like to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

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.

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.

I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.

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.

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.