Quotes for Father's Day

If you have not had the opportunity to bond with your father, now is a good time. Great quotes can move mountains. Use these quotes for Father's Day, and express your feelings. Your father may act tough, but beneath the tough exterior there lies a tender heart.

• Anne Geddes
  Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.
  
  
• Jean Paul Richter
  The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
  
  
• Adabella Radici
  I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.
  
  
• Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eyes
  All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.
  
  
• Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
  Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...
  
  
• Imelda Marcos
  I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
  
  
• Samuel Johnson
  There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
  
  
• Knights of Pythagoras
  A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
  
  
• King George V
  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.
  
  
• Wilhelm Busch
  Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough.
  
  
• Madonna
  My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
  
  
• Angelina Jolie
  And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.
  
  
• Brad Pitt
  Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.
  
  
• James Denton
  When you have kids, it takes the focus off of you. You forget about what clothes you're wearing, or if you went to the gym. It makes you a better person if you do it right.
  
  
• George Bush
  We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.
  
  
• Kelsey Grammer
  A child is a reinvigorating experience. It almost does feel like immortality, but not in the way people think. It reminds us there are universal truths that are most simply seen through the mind of a young person.
  
  
• Russell Crowe
  I cannot understand how I managed to cope without getting cuddled this many times a day.
  
  
• Ben Affleck
  I love being a father. It's wonderful. It's changed my life. It all sounds like platitudes and clichés, and that's because they're the truth.
  
  
• Joel Madden
  Being a father is nothing you can plan for. You've got to take it one day at a time, and there's no manual or anything like that. It's not a conscious change, it just happens to you all of a sudden. We had Harlow, and suddenly our priorities changed.
  
  
• Brendan Fraser
  The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle.
  
  
• Robin Williams
  I stopped drinking when I had children because I wanted to be awake and aware. I did not want to be going, you know, daddy loves you and then drop my head on the table. I do not want to miss anything that they do or say. It is important to me.
  
  
• David Beckham
  Being a dad is more important than football.