Fathers Day Quotes - Page 4

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

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

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

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he'd removed the iron sliver I thought I'd die from. I can't remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face.