Father’s Day Inspirational Quotes And Sayings

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“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”
– Kent Nerburn, U.S. Author and Educator

“Being a father helps me be more responsible… you see more things than you’ve ever seen.”
– Kid Rock

“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.”
– King George V

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

“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.”
– Laurence Rockefeller

“As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.”
– Lord Chesterfield

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
– Louis Adamic

“DAD, When I was born, You were there to catch me when I fall, whenever and wherever. When I said my first words, You were there for me, to teach me the whole dictionary if need be. When I took my first steps, You were there to encourage me on. When I had my first day at school, you were there to give me advice and help me with my homework. I still haven’t finished school, or walked down the aisle, or had my first child. But I know you will be there for me through all these times and more, the good and bad. So I just wrote this to say ‘I LOVE YOU DAD!”
– Louisa Mansfield

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

“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.”
– Margaret Courtney

“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.”
– Margaret Truman

“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”
– 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.”
– Mario Cuomo

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around, but when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
– Mark Twain

“A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.”
– Marlene Dietrich

“What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.”
– Mary Maples Dodge

“Honor thy father and thy mother.”
– Matthew 19:19

“My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.”
– Natasha Josefowitz

“Don’t make a baby if you can’t be a father.”
– National Urban League Slogan

“Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.”
– Olive Schreiner

“Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!”
– Philip Whitmore Snr

“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.”
– Phyllis Diller

“The thing to remember about fathers is, they’re men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find Someone chock full of qualms and romantic terrors, Believing change is a threat Like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle It took such months to get.”
– Phyllis McGinley

‘”he thing to remember about fathers is, they’re men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.”
– Phyllis McKinley

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

“The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”
– Proverbs 1:10

“A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.”
– Proverbs 13:22

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bring forth its fruit in season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.”
– Psalm 1:1-3

“An angry father is most cruel towards himself.”
– Publilius Syrus

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