Best Father's Day Quotes – Celebrating Fatherhood
This Father's Day, celebrate fatherhood with meaningful quotes that will change the way you think of his father.
Alexander Pope: We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.
Anonymous: Young children become men through the great influence of big men who care about small children.
Anonymous: The greatest gift I've ever had came from God, and I call him Dad!
Anonymous: One night a father overheard his son pray: Lord, make me the kind of man is my dad. Later that night, the Father prayed, Lord, make me the kind of man my son wants to be.
Anne Sexton: No matter who was my father mind if I remember it was.
Bill Cosby: Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is "soap on a rope."
Charles Wadworth: For when a man realizes that maybe his father was right, usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Chinese proverb: If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.
Budington Kelland Clarence Henry James once defined life as the plight of the above death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for what you get in a difficult situation. But a child owes his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten into trouble this peak, takes off his coat and buckles down to the work of showing his son how best to crash through it.
Clarence Budington Kelland: He did not tell me how to live, lived, and let me see him.
Confucius: The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son they neglected.
Croesus: In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Douglas Macarthur: By profession I am a soldier and are proud of this fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build, the only father who builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death, and the other represents the creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are more powerful yet. It is my hope that my son, when I'm gone, will remember me not from the battlefield but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer: "Our Father which art in heaven. "
Erika Cosby: You know … parents only have one way of putting it all together.
Euripides: For a father old growth there is nothing more expensive than a daughter.
Euripides: Noble fathers have noble children.
Euripides: Lucky that man whose children make happiness in life and not his pain, the disappointment of her anxious waiting.
Fanny Fern: For her father's name was another name for love.
George Herbert: A father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Harry S Truman: I found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise you do so.
Imelda Marcos: I've never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that can not love again.
Jan Hutchins: When I was a kid, my father told me that every day, "You are the most wonderful guy in the world and can do anything you want."
J. Strindberg of August: That is the thankless position of the father in the family … provider for all, and the enemy of all.
Jean de La Fontaine: It is impossible to please everyone and a father.
Jewish proverb: When a father gives his son, both laugh, and when a son gives his father, both mourn.
John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a cemetery in ruins: There are something like a line of gold thread running through the words of a man to speak to your daughter, and gradually over the years it becomes long enough for you to take in his hands and weave into a fabric that feels like love itself.
Josefowitz: My father died many years, and yet when something special to me, talk to him secretly not really knowing if he finds, but it makes me feel better half to believe.
Joseph Joubert: Children have more need of models than critics.
Kent Nerburn: Until you have a child of their own … never know the joy, love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks at his son. You will never know the meaning of honor that makes a man wants to be more than what it is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And we will never know the anguish of parents who are obsessed with their personal demons back from being the men who want their children to become.
Kent Nerburn: It is much easier to become a father to be.
Knights of Pythagoras: A man never stands so tall as when he kneels to help a child.
Lydia M. Child: Blessed is the man made who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Marcelene Cox: Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children who miss the glory of parenthood, and the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eyes: All fathers are invisible during the day, day is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings parents at home, with real power, no name. There are more parents than it seems.
Mario Cuomo: I saw a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen hours and sixteen hours daily. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of your feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me everything I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
Mario Cuomo: I can talk and talk and talk, and I have not taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
Margaret Courtney: Be kind to your father because when you were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent joy.
Margaret Truman: It's only when you grow up, and a step behind him, or leave it for his own career and his own house – it is only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
Mark Twain, Mississippi in old days: When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant that no the old man could stand around. But when I became twenty-one, was surprised at how much he had learned in seven years.
National Urban League Motto: Do not make a baby if you can not be a father.
Nat King Cole: I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her, I account. I panicked again and started feeling dizzy. Then I thought … I was a father.
Queen Victoriaof England: None of you can never be as proud enough of being the son of a Father who has not his equal in this world – so big, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow suit and not discouraged, because to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, never will be. Try, therefore, be like him in some points, and you have gained a lot.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, on the death of his son: My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize me, you never can tell how much of me as a young child can be removed. A few weeks ago I represented a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
Richard Henry Dana: It is better to be driven from among men being not like children.
Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy: Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Frost: The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother is always a Democrat.
Samuel Johnson: Always must be a struggle between a father and a son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
Sigmund Freud: I can not think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for protection of a father.
Sir Stephen Spender: When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son at the top of his horse, my mind initially struck by the lashes of your rhetoric, windy of course.
Stanley T. Banks, Father of the Bride: You parents can understand. You have a child. She looks up to you. You're her oracle. You are their hero. And then comes the day when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day, you are in a constant state of panic.
Stanley T. Banks, Father of the Bride: "Who giveth this woman? "This woman. But she is a woman. She is still a child. And she is going. What is going to be like coming home and not find it? No voice calling a: "Hi, Dad" as I pass? I suddenly realized what he was doing. I was giving up Kay. Something inside me began to hurt.
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities: Sherman made the terrible discovery that men about their fathers sooner or later … the man before him was not a father old, but a child, a boy like himself, a boy who grew up and had a son himself, and as best he could, a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a paper called "Be a 'Father for your son would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, which could put a stop to all possibilities chaotic and catastrophic life.
William Penn: He who is taught to live a little more due to the wisdom of his father that he has much left it to care of his father.
Buying Dad ties, power tools, ball games tickets and other gifts for dad Day are acceptable ways to thank dad. We tend to go for more sentimental ideas, though writing a poem on a card attached to a gift is quite close well too.
Your children can easily write their own poems as well. Just start with "Roses are red, violets are blue" and have them finish the rest. Even grouchiest of parents can not resist a young child reading an ode to them. Here are some noted Padres Poetry Day. About the Author
Paul Banas was looking for a business idea that would allow him the flexibility to spend time with his family. Paul Banas is a founder of GreatDad.com – a leading source of experience, recommendations, inspiration and advice for dads – delivered from the male perspective.
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