Special Quotes for Father's Day

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." -- William Shakespeare

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." -- Anne Sexton

"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

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." -- Gabriel García Márquez

"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" -- Lydia M. Child

"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." -- Ruth E. Renkel

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." -- Charles Wadsworth

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud

"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." -- Clarence Budington Kelland

"I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich." -- M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

"A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with the snapshots of his kids." -- Anonymous quotes

"A father is a banker provided by nature." -- Proverb quotes

"A father's words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house" -- Paul Lewis

"Fathers are what give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly goodenough...so they can have grandchildren that are smarter than anybody's." -- Paul Harvey

"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'" -- Jim Fox

"Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. "-- Anne Geddes

"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 always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life."-- Elbert Hubbard

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."-- Anonymous quotes