The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
~Author Unknown
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
~ Anonymous
A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.
~ Anonymous
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
~ Enid Bagnold
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
~ Confucius
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.
~ Bill Cosby
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
~ Erika Cosby
Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
~ Margaret Courtney
How true Daddy's words were when he said: "All children must look after their own upbringing." Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
~ Anne Frank
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
~ Sigmond Freud
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
~ Gabriel García Márquez
It is a wise child that knows his own father.
~ Homer
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
~ William Shakespeare
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
~ Kent Nerburn
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
~ William Penn
None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.
~ Queen Victoria of England
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
~ Anne Sexton
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
~ J. August Strindberg
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.
~ Alan Valentine
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.
~ Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
~ Charles Wadsworth quotes
"Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough"
~ Wilhelm Busch
"It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him"
~ Mark Twain
"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family"
~ Anthony Brandt
"To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years"
~ Ernest Hemingway
"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope"
~ John Ciardi
"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."
~ Bill Cosby
"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
~ Clarence B. Kelland
"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."
~ Enid Bagnold
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
~ George Herbert
"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";"
~ Harmon Killebrew
"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!"
~ Lydia M. Child
"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."
~ Marlene Dietrich
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
~ Sigmund Freud
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
~ Anne Sexton
"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."
~ Ruth E. Renkel
"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
~ William Shakespeare
"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all."
~ August Strindberg
"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."
~ Aziza Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care."
~ William Penn
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
~ Mark Twain
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
~ Clarence Budington Kelland
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."
~ Harmon Killebrew
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
~ George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
~ Bill Cosby
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
~ William Wordsworth
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.
~ Clarence Budington Kelland
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
~ Enid Bagnold
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
~ Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
~Johann Schiller
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
~ Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.
~ Author Unknown
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.
~ John Gregory Brown (Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery), 1994
Happy Father's Day!
Cheers!
