Best Father Quotes:

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

- John Walter Bratton

topic: Dad, Daddy, Father Died, Inspirational Father, My Dad Died

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

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Men, Inspirational Father, Daughter To Father

He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.

- Margaret Truman Daniel

source: "On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Growing Up, Inspirational Father, Great Father

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

- Kent Nerburn

topic: Fathers Day, Father, Easier, Inspirational Father, Great Father

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

- Gloria Naylor

source: Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.185, Open Road Media

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad, Father Died, Inspirational Father

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

- Anne Sexton

source: "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

topic: Death, Daughter, Fathers Day, Loss Of A Parent, Father Died

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Fathers Day, Son, Giving, Sons Love, Inspirational Father

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Family, Wise, Meaningful, Inspirational Father, Merchant Of Venice

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

- Jim Valvano

topic: Basketball, Fathers Day, Dad, Father Died, Inspirational Father

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

- Umberto Eco

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Believe, Good Parent, Being A Father

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

- Lydia M. Child

topic: Family, Fathers Day, Dad, Inspirational Father, Great Father

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

- Tom Wolfe

topic: Children, Father, Boys, Inspirational Father, Being A Father

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Family, Thank You, Fathers Day, Happy Family, Inspirational Father

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

- Billy Graham

topic: Inspirational, Father, Our Society, Inspirational Father, Our Father

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

topic: Funny, Fathers Day, Kids, Great Father, Dad Love

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

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Family, Mother, Fathers Day, Inspirational Father, Step Dad

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

- Clarence Budington Kelland

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Loss, Sons Love, Father Died

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

- Enid Bagnold

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Baby, Mom And Daughter, Father Died

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: "Royal Truths, etc".

topic: Love, Inspirational, Family, Great Parents, Losing A Parent

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

- Bill Cosby

topic: Funny, Fathers Day, Dad, Father Died, Inspirational Father

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

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Comfort, Great Father, Dad Love

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

- Erika Cosby

topic: Family, Father, Together, Inspirational Father, Great Father

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

- Steve Martin

topic: Fathers Day, Baby, Dad, Father Died, Inspirational Father

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

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong, Joys Of Childhood, Inspirational Father

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

- Confucius

topic: Fathers Day, Son, Doe, Sons Love, Inspirational Father

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

- William Wordsworth

topic: Fathers Day, Father, Names, Great Father, Our Father

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

topic: Gratitude, Jobs, Children, Great Father, Buckles

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

- Pope John XXIII

topic: Fathers Day, Children, Dad, Inspirational Father, Being A Father

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

- Fanny Fern

topic: Dad, Father, Names, Inspirational Father, Great Father

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert

topic: Relationship, Daughter, Fathers Day, Inspirational Father, Great Father

There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.

- Bob Phillips

topic: Christmas, Believe, Men, Humorous Christmas, Funny Christmas

I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.

- Louis C. K.

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Mistake, Kids Love, Your Dad

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

- Elton John

topic: Fathers Day, Song, My Son, Fathers Day Images, Fathers Day Inspirational

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

- David Gottesman

topic: Mother, Daughter, Father, Inspirational Father, Like A Mother

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock - full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I took such months to get.

- Phyllis McGinley

topic: Girl, Daughter, Father, Qualms, Qualms About

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

source: Time Magazine, June 02, 1986.

topic: Marriage, Father, Years, Father Died, Inspirational Father

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

- Mike Myers

topic: Fathers Day, Falling In Love, Kids, Fathers Day Images, Best Father

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

- August Strindberg

topic: Fathers Day, Enemy, Position, Great Father, Love My Dad

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

- Anne Geddes

topic: Relationship, Dad, Father, Special Someone, Inspirational Father

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Inspire, Dad Love, Love My Dad

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.'

- Michael Jordan

topic: Father, Trying, Too Late, Fathers Day Images, Fathers Day Inspirational

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

- Lee Iacocca

source: Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.137, Bantam

topic: Friendship, Cute, Relationship, Great Father, Life Love Friendship

Never love anything that can't love you back.

- Bruce Williams

topic: Teenage, Love You, Teenage Love, Material Girl, Love My Dad

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

- Frank Abagnale

topic: Husband, Father, Real, Real Men, Husband And Father

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

- Euripides

topic: Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad, Mom And Daughter, Inspirational Father

There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

- Maureen Reagan

topic: Heaven, Special, Caregivers, Great Father, Dad Love

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ...

- Phyllis McGinley

topic: Father, Believe, Scratches, Qualms, Qualms About

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

- Wally Schirra

topic: Fathers Day, Hero, Eye, Sons Love, Inspirational Father

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

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Mom, Daughter, Mother, Inspiring Motherhood, Mother's Day

Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

- Louis C. K.

topic: Fathers Day, Running, Home, Landscaping, Fathers Day Inspirational