Happy Fathers Day God Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

- Bill Cosby

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

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

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

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

- William Penn

source: "Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims".

topic: Family, Fathers Day, Wisdom, Christian Fathers Day, Happy Fathers Day God

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

- Ben Okri

topic: Fathers Day, Courage, Adversity, Jovial, Rollercoaster

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

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

He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.

- Chelsea Clinton

topic: Fathers Day, Land, Safe, Fathers Day Images, Fathers Day Inspirational

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

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

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

- John Walter Bratton

topic: Daughter, Dad, Hero, Dad Love, Daughter To 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 carries pictures where his money used to be.

- Steve Martin

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

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare

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

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

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 a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

- Euripides

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

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

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

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

- Wade Boggs

topic: Dad, Father, Games, Special Someone, Special To Me

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

- Yehuda Berg

topic: Father, Voice, Path, Certainty In Life, Happy Fathers Day

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

- Helen Hayes

topic: Daughter To Father, Brooklyn Bridge, Father Child, Funny Father, Funny Happy Fathers Day

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

- Solomon

topic: Mother, Fathers Day, Father, Your Mom, Christian Fathers Day

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

- Austin O'Malley

topic: Inspirational, Fathers Day, Dad, Ordinary Man, Happy Fathers Day God

Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.

- Jake Gyllenhaal

topic: Dad, Believe, Mean, Fathers Day Poems, Happy Fathers Day God

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

When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'

- Jan Hutchins

topic: Dad, Father, Kids, Funny Happy Fathers Day, Happy Fathers Day God

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Fathers Day, Son, Earth, Sons Love, Father And Son

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

- Mario Cuomo

source: 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

topic: Inspirational, Hard Work, Simple, Inspirational Father, Daughter To Father

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

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

- William Graham Sumner

source: William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Encouragement, Father, Believe, Good Father, Happy Fathers Day

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

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

- Paul Walker

topic: Girl, Mom, Fathers Day, Inspirational Father, 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

You can do anything you want to do.

- Estelle Getty

topic: Want, Funny Happy Fathers Day, Happy Fathers Day God, Happy Fathers Day Greetings, Cowardly

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

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