Quotes on Fathers Day

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

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

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

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

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

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

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

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

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

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

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.

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

When my kids were younger, I used to avoid them. I used to sit on the toilet 'til my legs fell asleep. You want to know why your father spends so long in the toilet? Because he's not sure he wants to be a father.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.