Remember your special Father all year with a great quote about Fathers for each of the 52 weeks…
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
—Elizabeth Stone
Father! – to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
—William Wordsworth
Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert 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 Courtney
How true Daddy’s words were when he said: “All children must look after their own upbringing.” 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
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
— Confucius
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.
— Alan Valentine
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
A wise son maketh a glad father.
— Proverbs 10:1
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, The Bonfire of the Vanities
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Johann Schiller
It is a wise child that knows his own father.
— Homer
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.
— Mario Cuomo
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
—Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all 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 with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
—Dinah Craik
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
—Gloria Naylor
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, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
— Jean de La Fontaine
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
— Henry Ward Beecher
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.
— William Penn
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
— Kent Nerburn
I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.
—M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
—Barbara Kingsolver
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 Piersal
None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world – so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don’t be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.
— Queen Victoria of England
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
—Clarence Budington Kelland
A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.
— Anonymous
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.
—Mark Twain
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
— David Gottesman
A father is a banker provided by nature.
— French Proverb
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
Dad, you’re someone to look up to no matter how tall I’ve grown.
—Author Unknown
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
—Author Unknown
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.
— Alice Walker
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
— Sigmund Freud
A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.
— Carol Coats
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
— Anonymous
It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
— Anne Sexton
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
— English Proverb
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
To her the name of father was another name for love.
— Fanny Fern
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
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
— Bill Cosby
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
— Enid Bagnold
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
—Red Buttons
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
— Gabriel García Márquez
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
— Lydia M. Child
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
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
— William Shakespeare
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
—Author Unknown
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
— J. August Strindberg
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, it took such months to get.
— Phyllis McGinley
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
— Erika Cosby
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