Happy Fathers Day God Quotes

He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.

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.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

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.

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

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Thank you Dad... for listening and caring, for giving and sharing, but, especially, for just being you! Happy Birthday to you

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

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

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.

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.

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.

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

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 man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

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

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.'

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

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!

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

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

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

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.

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

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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

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

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 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 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.'

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.