Father’s Day Quotes

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

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. -Jim Valvano

Are we not like two volumes of one book? -Phyllis Diller

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich. -Red Buttons

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. -MAS*H, Colonel Potter

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. -Sigmund Freud

“Honor thy father and thy mother.” — Matthew 19:19, Jewish Proverb

“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

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.” — Friedrich Nietzche

“Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.” — Robert Orben”

People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.” — Carroll O’Connor

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

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. –  Enid Bagnold

My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. – Clarence B. Kelland

I’ve had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started. – Bartrand Hubbard

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.- Sigmund Freud

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.- Billy Graham

Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. – Anne Geddes

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

“A wise son maketh a glad father.” — Proverbs 10:1