I want to wish all the dads out there who are a positive influence in their children’s lives a HAPPY Father’s Day! I hope your day is filled with lots of love, appreciation, and GOOD FOOD!
I thought it would be fun to share some famous Father’s Day quotes in celebration of today.
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”
-Sigmond Freud
“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
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
– William Shakespeare
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
– George Herbert
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”
– Confucius
“You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular.”
– Robert Frost
“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
“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 taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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
“Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.”
-Robert Orben
“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 the old man had learned in seven years.”
-Mark Twain
“Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.”
-George Washington
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
– Charles Wadsworth
“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”
– Billy Graham
“If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.”
– James Baldwin
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These are awesome!