Happy Father’s Day Quotes

Happy Father’s Day Quotes from Son

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

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

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. – Mark Twain

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

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

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. – Confucius

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

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

Happy Father’s Day Quotes from Daughter

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

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

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

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

You know… fathers just have a way of putting everything together. – Erika Cosby

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

Father’s Day Card Quotes

Dad, you’re someone to look up to no matter how tall I’ve grown.

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.

A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be.

A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.

The greatest gift I ever had,
He came from God; I call him Dad!

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

Funny Father’s Day Quotes

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. – Red Buttons

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

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

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

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. – Robert Orben

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