Happy First Fathers Day Quotes

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

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

When I was a kid, my father told me every day, ‘You’re the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.’

Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Dad – a son’s first hero, a daughter’s first love.

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I’m very good at gibberish now.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.