Father's Day Quotes

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

The greatest thing a FATHER can do to his children, is to love their mother.
- Anjaneth Garcia Untalan

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
- Pope John XXIII

I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.
- Bartrand Hubbard

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
- Sigmund Freud
                                                                                           
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland

One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

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

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

It kills you to see them grow up.  But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
                                                   ~Barbara Kingsolve~~

Making the decision to have a child is momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
                                                    ~Elizabeth Stone~~
                                                                                   
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

 'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness." --                                                                ~~Aeschylus~~

"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."
                                                               -- Mario Cuomo~~

"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' "
                                                         -- Jim Fox~~

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development."
                                                                    -- David M. Gottesman~~

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life." --                                         ~~Elbert Hubbard~~
                                                                                  

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.'"
                                                               -- Jerry Lewis~~

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

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share."
                                 -- Tiger Woods, U.S. Professional Golfer~~

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."
                                                     -- Pope John XXIII~~

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

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

                                          ~ Bill Cosby~
                                                                                       
                           
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~

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

                                                             ~ William Shakespeare~