Father’s Day is held each year to celebrate the role of fathers and fatherhood. In honour of fathers and Father’s Day, here are some of our favourite quotes about fathers.
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.”
Pam Brown
“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
Ruth E. Renkel
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
Theodore Hesburgh
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“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
“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 the little scraps of wisdom.”
Umberto Eco
“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
“The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.”
Dan Rather
“The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.”
Gregory E. Lang
“When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.”
Linda Poindexter
“Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”
Barack Obama
“My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, ‘You never know what you can accomplish until you try.’”
Michael Jordan
“The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.”
Reed Markham
