Father’s Day Quotes, Sayings for fathers

At least once each year, people look for just the right words to express their gratitude and love for something that we only have one of in the entire world – a father. While many ready-made cards can say what needs to be said, some people are a bit more selective. They may create their own short message and include a quote from some wise or famous individual who just happened to put the right thoughts in the perfect way. Quotes come in all shapes and sizes. Comedians, authors, politicians and others have had their say about fathers through the centuries. Whether your father would appreciate a bit of humor, a touch of class, a few words of wisdom or a simple statement of adoration, it’s a safe bet there is a quote to fit when Fathers Day comes around this year. Start with one of these selections.

1.) According to Bill Cosby, 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.

2.) According to a French Proverb, A father is a banker provided by nature.

3.) According to Anne Geddes, Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.

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

5.) According to Jerry Lewis, 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.”

6.) According to Gabriel García Márquez, A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

7.) According to Harmon Killebrew, 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.”

8.) According to Mark Twain, 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.

9.) A father carries pictures where his money used to be ~ Unknown.

10.) According to Pope John XXIII, It is easy for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

11.) According to Lewis Mumford, Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

12.) According to Charles Wadsworth, By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

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