Best 110 quotes in «fathers day quotes» category

Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.

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!

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'this is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

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

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

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.

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.

He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

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.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

In a normal family, a surprise means presents, cake and a party. For me ? I had no idea. And my family, doing something nice is seen as an attack. When I was nine, I 'attacked' my father with a fathers day gift. A visor organiser for his car, because it was useful. And it rhymed. Visor. Organiser. I was nine.

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

In times of trouble you can count on your self. In times of disaster you can count on your friends. In times of sorrow you can count on your Father.

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

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a person more fearless and courageous than my father ... The thing that I admire most about my dad is his genuine Christian character. He is a man of real integrity, deeply committed to moral and ethical principles. He is conscientious in all of his undertakings ... If I had a problem I could always call Daddy.

I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

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.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

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

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

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

My father can not finish a sentence. When we were kids he would go, 'Girls the most important thing in life to remember is...' 'Daddy, what is it?' 'What's what, honey?' 'The most important thing in life to remember.' 'Oh, what's that?'

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Never love anything that can't love you back.