Fathers Day Quotes

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Noble fathers have noble children.

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

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

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving.

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

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

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.

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

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

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

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the 70s, Fathers Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Fathers Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.

My father can not finish a sentence. When we were kids he would go, 'Girls the most important thing in life to remember is...' 'Daddy, what is it?' 'What's what, honey?' 'The most important thing in life to remember.' 'Oh, what's that?'

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

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.

To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he'd removed the iron sliver I thought I'd die from. I can't remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face.

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.

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

Being Chinese immigrants in the United States, it was important for my parents to maintain ties that went back a long time. They led by example. My dad didn't bring his work pressures home. We were always aware of them and would go as kids to his office and run around. But when he came home, he was able to leave things behind, at least from our perspective, and focus on us.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

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

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said, "Box about: twill come to my father anon."

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

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.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

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.

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.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.