Father’s Day Quotes For Paying Tribute To Dad

by allinspiration.com

Here is a nice collection of Father’s Day quotes and sayings for paying tribute to a special man – dad.

“I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Honour thy father and thy mother’ stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.”
– Aeschylus

“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.”
– Alan Valentine

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”
– Alexander the Great

“My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening”
– Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.”
– Alice Walker

“The greatest thing a FATHER can do to his children, is to love their mother.”
– Anjaneth Garcia Untailan

“Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
– Anne Geddes

“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.”
– Antonio Gramsci

“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.”
– Barbara Kingsolver

“I’ve had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.”
– Bartrand Hubbard

“Happy Fathers day to all men who are celebrating fathers day, wishing you everlasting happiness and eternal love.”
– Bel Claveria Carig Martinez

“A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.”
– Bill Cosby

“If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.”
– Bill Cosby

“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”
– Bill Cosby

“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”
– Billy Graham

“People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.”
– Carroll O’Connor

“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.”
– Chae Richardson

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
– Charles Wadsworth

“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
– 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. ”
– Clarence Budington Kelland

“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
– Clarence Budington Kelland

“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
– Clarence Budington Kelland

“I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.”
– Coloner Potter, “M*A*S*H”

“Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers – and fathering is a very important stage in their development.”
– David M. Gottesman

“My father said, ‘Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?”‘
– Dexter Scott King

“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.”
– Dinah Craik

“My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, you’ve had a great life.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
– Elizabeth Stone

“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
– Enid Bagnold

“Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.”
– Euripedes

“Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
– Exodus 20:12

“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

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