Cute Fathers Day Quotes:

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

- Denis Waitley

topic: Careers, Inspirational Determination, Inspirational Father, Inspirational Hard Work, Inspirational Passion

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

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

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

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

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

- Robert Orben

topic: Family, Fathers Day, Mother, Inspirational Father, Credit Card

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

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

topic: Friendship, Book, Two, Bff, Togetherness

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

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

- Steve Martin

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

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

- William Wordsworth

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

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

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

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Young Entrepreneurs

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

- Bill Cosby

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

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

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

- Theodore Hesburgh

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Family, Marriage Advice

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

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert

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

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 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

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

- Timothy J. Russert

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

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

source: A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

topic: Letting Go, Kindness, Blow, Making Friends, Bff

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

- Imelda Marcos

source: TIME magazine, November 11, 1996.

topic: Girl, Daughter, Fathers Day, Material Girl, Daughter To Father

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.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Mom, Children, Mean, Inspirational Father, Mother's Day

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

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

- Jimmy Piersall

topic: Baseball, Baby, Rain, Cute Fathers Day, Funny Fathers Day

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

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

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Fathers Day, Struggle, Son, Love My Dad, Father And Son

A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids.

- Michael Forest

topic: Father, Kids, Snapshots, Cute Fathers Day

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

- Erika Cosby

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

Never love anything that can't love you back.

- Bruce Williams

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

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

source: A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

topic: Friendship, Kindness, Blessing, Female Friends, Inspirational Relationship

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.

- Lord Chesterfield

source: Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.239, Oxford University Press

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Fathers Day, Fatherless, Fathers Day Images

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

My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Children, Dad, Son, Cute Fathers Day

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

- Kent Nerburn

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

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

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

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Son, Disillusion, Great Father

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

- George Herbert

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

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

- Jean Paul

topic: Family, Dad, Children, Father Died, Great Father

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.

- Helen Rowland

source: Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Son, Inspirational Father, Father And Son

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

topic: Inspirational, Growing Up, Women, Good Character, Many Paths

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

- Jean de La Fontaine

source: "Fables (Book III)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

topic: Boyfriend, Daughter, Father, Daughter To Father, Cute Fathers Day

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

- George Eliot

topic: Love, Friendship, Relationship, Female Friends, Inspirational Relationship

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

- George Eliot

topic: Best Friend, Feelings, Comfort, Bff, Female Friends