Fathers Day Card Quotes:

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 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

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

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

topic: Love, Funny, Motivational, Live And Learn, Inspirational Family Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert

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

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

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

- Bill Cosby

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

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

- Timothy J. Russert

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

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

source: John Gregory Brown (2001). “Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Daughter, Running, Men, Inspirational Father, Mother And Daughter

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

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

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Funny, Leadership, Witty, Kid At Heart, Inspirational Parenting

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Fatherhood, Funny Dad, Being A Dad

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

Thank you Dad... for listening and caring, for giving and sharing, but, especially, for just being you! Happy Birthday to you

- John Walter Bratton

topic: Dad, Caring, Giving, Fathers Day Card, Fathers Day Poems

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were 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 Ann Courtney

topic: Daughter, Father, Glee, Daughter To Father, Father Daughter Love

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

- William Wordsworth

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

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

- Alison Lohman

topic: Fathers Day, Men, People, Inspirational Father, Untamed

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

topic: Fathers Day, Zoos, Kids, Being A Father, Dad Love

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the 70s, Fathers Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Fathers Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

- Art Alexakis

topic: Mom, Fathers Day, Children, Fathers Day Card