Father’s Day Quotes

So many people over the years have had a lot to say about fathers! Here are some quotes about fathers to think about this Father’s Day:

“He is a wise father who knows his own son.” -William Shakespeare

“When a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he is wrong.” -Charles Wadsworth

“To be a successful parent, there is one absolute rule: When you have a child, don’t look at it for the first two years.” -Ernest Hemingway

“If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, take comfort in the fact that anything he does in any parenting situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.” -Bill Cosby

“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his sons the richest inheritance.” -Ruth E. Renkel

“It doesn’t matter who my father was, it matters who I remember him to be.” -Anne Sexton

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore M. Hesburgh

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

“Love and fear. Everything the father of the family says should inspire one or the other.” -Joseph Joubert

“Noble parents have noble children.” – Euripides

“When I was a fourteen-year-old boy, my father was so ignorant that he could hardly bear to have the old man around. But when I turned twenty-one, I was amazed at how much I had learned in seven years.” -Mark Twain

“A man is never so tall as when he kneels to help a child.” – Knights of Pythagoras

The best phrases for Father’s Day:

“It is easier for a father to have children than it is for children to have a real father.” – Pope John XXIII

“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many soft voices calling him father!” – Lydia M. Child

“It’s much easier to become a parent than it is.” -Kent Nerburn

“The greatest gift I’ve ever had came from God, and I call him Dad!” – Anonymous

“One night, a father heard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my dad is. Later that night, the father prayed: Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.” – Anonymous