*4 years: My Daddy can do anything!
7 years: My Dad knows a lot…a whole lot.
8 years: My father does not know quite everything.
12 years: Oh well, naturally Father does not know that either.
14 years: Oh, Father? He is hopelessly old-fashioned.
21 years: Oh, that man-he is out of date!
25 years: He knows a little bit about it, but not much.
30 years: I must find out what Dad thinks about it.
35 years: Before we decide, we will get Dad’s idea first.
50 years: What would Dad have thought about that?
60 years: My Dad knew literally everything!
65 years: I wish I could talk it over with Dad once more.
~ Author Unknown
* A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~ Author Unknown
* A Dad is a person
who is loving and kind,
And often he knows
what you have on your mind.
He’s someone who listens,
suggests, and defends.
A dad can be one
of your very best friends!
He’s proud of your triumphs,
but when things go wrong,
A dad can be patient
and helpful and strong
In all that you do,
a dad’s love plays a part.
There’s always a place for him
deep in your heart.
And each year that passes,
you’re even more glad,
More grateful and proud
just to call him your dad!
Thank you, Dad…
for listening and caring,
for giving and sharing,
but, especially, for just being you!
Happy Father’s Day
* A father is a banker provided by nature. ~ French Proverb
* A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~ Enid Bagnold
* A father is someone that
holds your hand at the fair
makes sure you do what your mother says
holds back your hair when you are sick
brushes that hair when it is tangled because mother is too busy
lets you eat ice cream for breakfast
but only when mother is away
he walks you down the aisle
and tells you everythings gonna be ok
~ Author Unknown
* A Father means so many things…
A understanding heart,
A source of strength and of support
Right from the very start.
A constant readiness to help
In a kind and thoughtful way.
With encouragement and forgiveness
No matter what comes your way.
A special generosity and always affection, too
A Father means so many things
When he’s a man like you…
~Author Unknown~
* 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
* A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. ~ Unknown
* A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
* A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. ~ Unknown
* A wise son maketh a glad father. ~ Proverbs 10:1
* And my dad, you’re a great actor but you’re a better father. ~ Angelina Jolie
* Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. ~ Anne Geddes
* 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
* Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don’t get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don’t have to do as much, like you don’t go on as many outings. ~ Hugh Jackman
* Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough. ~ Wilhelm Busch
* Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~LydiaM. Child
* By profession, I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, ‘Our Father who art in Heaven.’ ~ Douglas Macarthur
* By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. ~ Charles Wadsworth
* Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~ Author Unknown
* Dad, you’re someone to look up to no matter how tall I’ve grown. ~ Author Unknown
* Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do…but she’s certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. ~ Anonymous
* Fathers are angels sent from heaven. ~ Author Unknown
* Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world. ~ John Mayor
* Father! – to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~ William Wordsworth
* Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development. ~ David Gottesman
* For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. ~ Homer
*God took the strength of a mountain
The majesty of a tree
The warmth of a summer sun
The calm of a quiet sea
The generous soul of nature
The comforting arm of night
The wisdom of the ages
The power of the eagle’s flight
The joy of a morning in spring
The faith of a mustard seed
The patience of eternity
The depth of a family need
Then God combined these qualities
When there was nothing more to add
He knew His masterpiece was complete
And so
He called it … Dad
~ Author Unknown.
* He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~ Clarence Budington Kelland
* He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care. ~ William Penn
* 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
* 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
* I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. ~ Sigmund Freud
* I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ~ Abraham Lincoln
* I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ~ Harry S Truman
* I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. ~ Imelda Marcos
* 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
* 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
* It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. ~ Anne Sexton
* In peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war, the fathers bury their sons. ~ Croesus
* It is a wise father that knows his own child. ~ William Shakespeare
* It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. ~ Mark Twain
* It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. ~ Pope John XXIII
* 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
* It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~ Johann Schiller
* It is much easier to become a father than to be one. ~ Kent Nerburn
* 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
* 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
* Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. ~ Robert Orben
* Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. ~ Joseph Joubert
* Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. ~ Euripedes
* My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ~ Quentin Crisp
* My father always taught me to appreciate what you’re fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help. ~ Dan Marino
* 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
* 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 always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening. ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
* My father said, ‘Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?’ ~ Dexter Scott King
* 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
*My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. ~ Jim Valvano
* 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
* 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. ~ Madonna
* Noble fathers have noble children. ~ Euripides
* Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. ~ Sam Ewing
* Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.~ Bill Cosby
* Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~ Gloria Naylor
* One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ~ George Herbert
* One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters. ~ George Herbert
* One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be. ~ Anonymous
*Our fathers toil with hands and heart
To make our lives complete.
They quietly brave the winter cold,
Endure the summer heat.
Our fathers’ lives are busy, but
There’s always time for us.
They boldly face the ups and downs
And seldom ever fuss.
Our fathers are the greatest dads.
We know you know this, too.
But thank you for the chance to share
Our love for them with you.
~Author Unknown~
* Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys. ~ Author Unknown
* Small boy’s definition of Father’s Day: It’s just like Mother’s Day only you don’t spend so much. ~ Unknown
* Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. ~ Ruth E. Renkel
* The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
~ Author Unknown
* There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
* The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. ~ Austin O’Malley
* 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
* The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ Author Unknown
* There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. ~ Samuel Johnson
* To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ~ Euripides
* To be a successful father there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years. ~ Ernest Hemingway
* We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. ~ Alexander Pope
* When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, my mind a top whipped by the lashes of your rhetoric, windy of course. ~ Sir Stephen Spender
* When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. ~ Jewish Proverb
* 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 theBrooklynBridge.’ ~ Helen Hayes
* When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~ Author unknown
* 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
* You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular. ~ Robert Frost
* You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You’re her oracle. You’re her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you’re in a constant state of panic. ~StanleyT. Banks
* You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway. ~ Robert Brault
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