Father's Day Quote

Your father watched you take baby steps, literally! He watched you blossom into an adult. He passed on his wisdom, knowledge, love, and passion through words and action. Today, it is your turn to return the favor. Each Father's Day quote here is brimming with love. Share a beautiful time of togetherness as you read out each Father's day quote to him.

• Clarence Budington Kelland
  He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
  
  
• George Herbert
  One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
  
  
• Bill Cosby
  Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
  
  
• Clarence Budington Kelland
  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.
  
  
• Johann Schiller
  It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
  
  
• Dinah Craik
  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.
  
• Jim Valvano
  My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
  
  
• Bill Cosby
  Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
  
  
• Phyllis Diller
  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.
  
  
• Austin O'Malley
  The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
  
  
• William Penn
  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.
  
  
• Pope John XXIII
  It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
  
  
• Richard Henry Dana
  Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
  
  
• Chinese Proverb
  If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.
  
  
• Sam Ewing
  Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
  
  
• August Strindberg
  That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
  
  
• Margaret Courtney
  Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
  
  
• Fanny Fern
  To her the name of father was another name for love.
  
  
• Erika Cosby
  You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
  
  
• Mario Cuomo
  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.