Tag: Father’s Day

Quotes June 16, 2024

“When my father didn’t have my hand… he had my back.”
Linda Poindexter
 
 
 
 
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.”
Pam Brown
 
 
 
 
“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely.”
Emile Gaboriau
 
 
 
 
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
 
 
 
 
“I love my father as the stars—he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.”
Terri Guillemets
 
 
 
 
“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
 
 
 
 
“My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.”
Liza Minnelli
 
 
 
 
“Average fathers have patience. Good fathers have more patience. Great fathers have an ocean of patience.”
Reed Markham
 
 
 
 
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
William Shakespeare
 
 
 
 
“A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.”
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 19, 2022

“Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you’re 12, but every single day.”
Mike Myers
 
 
 
 
“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”
Steve Martin
 
 
 
 
“Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end.”
George Strait
 
 
 
 
“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely.”
Emile Gaboriau
 
 
 
 
“No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
“He adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector.”
Tom Wolfe
 
 
 
 
“By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am also prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.”
General Douglas MacArthur
 
 
 
 
“Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.”
Wade Boggs
 
 
 
 
“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
 
 
 
 
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
 
 
 
 
“No man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.”
Hedy Lamarr
 
 
 
 
“I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.”
Liza Minnelli
 
 
 
 
“Lately all my friends are worried they’re turning into their fathers. I’m worried I’m not.”
Dan Zevin
 
 
 
 
“When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.”
Linda Poindexter
 
 
 
 
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
 
 
 
 
“The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.”
Tim Russert
 
 
 
 
“There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
 
 
 
 
“Every son’s first superhero is his father”
Tiger Schroff
 
 
 
 
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
Frederick Douglass
 
 
 
 
“A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Some people don’t believe in heroes, but they haven’t met my dad.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers, and singers of song.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 20, 2021

“No man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.”
Hedy Lamarr
 
 
 
 
“To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.”
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
“A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.”
Ama H.Vanniarachchy
 
 
 
 
“I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life.”
Sidney Poitier
 
 
 
 
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
Billy Graham
 
 
 
 
I realized being a father is the greatest job I have ever had and the greatest job I will ever have.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
 
 
 
 
It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Johann Friedrich von Schiller
 
 
 
 
“The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.”
Dan Pearce