Father’s Day Inspirational Quotes And Sayings

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“When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it’s a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what’s happening. She becomes what’s happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.”
– Frederick Buechner, ‘Whistling in the Dark’

“A father is a banker provided by nature.”
– French Proverb

“Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.”
– Friedrich Nietzche

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, ‘Daddy, I need to ask you something,’ he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.”
– Garrison Keillor

“My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately”
– George Bernard Shaw

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
– George Herbert

“We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.”
– George Will, U.S. Journalist

“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”
– Gloria Naylor

“I’m a father; that’s what matters most. Nothing matters more.”
– Gordon Brown

“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”
– Harmon Killebrew

“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.”"
– Helen Hayes

“A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.”
– Helen Rowland

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

“Father, whom I murdered every night but one, That one, when your death murdered me.”
– Howard Moss, Elegy for My Father (l. 1-2)

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

” My father was a statesman, I’m a political woman. My father was a saint. I’m not.”
– Indira Gandhi

“That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.”
– J. August Strindberg

“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.”
– Jan Hutchins

“When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?’ He answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.’”
– Jerry Lewis

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
– Jewish Proverb

“My father always told me, ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.’ ”
– Jim Fox

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
– Jim Valvano

“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
– Johann Schiller

“My father told me that all businessmen were sons-of-bitches, but I never believed him until now.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world. ”
– John Mayor

“That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel”
– Joseph Addison

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