Fathers Day Quotes

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

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

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

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.

The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.

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.'

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

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

Whenever one of my children says, 'Goodnight, Daddy,' I always think to myself, 'You don't mean that.

I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.

I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.

Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.

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.

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.

If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.

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.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

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

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.

My dad used to say 'Always fight fire with fire,' which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade.

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."

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day.

Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really.

What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.

He was a father. That's what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.