Quotes on Happy First Fathers Day

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

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

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

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

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

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.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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.

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

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

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

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.