Father’s Day Quotes For Paying Tribute To Dad

by allinspiration.com

“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

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

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

“An effective father devotes himself to become an instrument and model of human experience to his children… accepts and affirms his children for who they are, appreciates them for what they are accomplishing, and covers them with affection because they are his.”
– Gordon MacDonald

“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

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

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

“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, 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

“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

“Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher’s mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.”
– Jimmy Piersal

“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

“There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.”
– John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994

“Fathers be good to your daughters. You are the God and the weight of her world.”
– John Mayer

“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

“When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.”
– Linda Poindexter

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

“Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!”
– Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

“You showed me how to laugh. You showed me how to cry. And every time I think of you I look up at the sky.”
– M. Montes

“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”
– Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

“Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert 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

“I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“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 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

“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

“A girls first true love is her father.”
– Marisol Santiago

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