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Fathers Day Quotes
I hope you enjoy this collection of Fathers Day quotes and a video tribute to Dad on his special day. Fathers Day Quotes IndexVideo Tribute to Dad on Fathers DayFor a more extensive collection of father video tributes, click here to find the "just right" video for Dad. Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes About Fathers
"A man's worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own." "Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other." "Fathers are angels sent from heaven." "It is much easier to become a father than to be one." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes "It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father." "Noble fathers have noble children." "You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's." "My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it." "A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Absent Father"The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Adoptive Father"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Appreciation of Father as Leader"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Appreciation of Father as Protector"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." "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." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes
Appreciation of Father as Provider"A man's worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own." "A father is a banker provided by nature." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Appreciation of Father as Teacher"One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters." "Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever." "I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen 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." "I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Appreciation of Father's Wisdom"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' " "I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back." "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." "My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Bad Father"When one has not had a good father, one must create one." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Being a Good Father"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." "A father is someone that holds your hand at the fair "My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. " "Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys." "It is a wise father that knows his own child." "Train up a child in the way which he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes
Fathers Day"Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!!" "A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society." "Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Father-Daughter Relationship"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again." "Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes." "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." "Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes "A father is someone that holds your hand at the fair "You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You're her oracle. You're her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you're in a constant state of panic." "To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Father-Son Relationship
"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." "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." "Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes "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." "The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father." "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." "Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys." "There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Humorous"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. " "A father carries pictures where his money used to be." "Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected." "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." "You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You're her oracle. You're her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you're in a constant state of panic." 4 years: My Daddy can do anything! Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes "Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. 'Do you believe there is a devil?' asked one. 'No,' said the other promptly. 'It's like Santa Claus: it's your father.'" "Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children." "There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus." "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." "A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station." "I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof." "My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Importance of Family"There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Inspirational"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." "Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad." "The greatest gift I ever had "I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich." "A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child." "One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Jaded"Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. 'Do you believe there is a devil?' asked one. 'No,' said the other promptly. 'It's like Santa Claus: it's your 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." "Don't make a baby if you can't be a 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." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes "The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father." "The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf." "My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it." "My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic." "There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Like a Father"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons." "It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all." 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New Father"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." "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.'" "When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time." "Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Proverbs"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry." "If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame." "The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them." "A father is a banker provided by nature." "Train up a child in the way which he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes
Quotes by Famous People"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." "A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station." "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." "A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society." "Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful." "My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help." "It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life." "There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him." "Noble fathers have noble children." "To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes "There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things." "I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much." "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.'" "My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." "It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father." "You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's." "I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof." "My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet." "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Sentimental"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.'" "I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much." "I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart." "My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. " "My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father." "It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Stepfather"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons." Return to Index of Fathers Day Quotes Return to Celebration Quotes - from Fathers Day Quotes
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