Famous Fathers Day Quotes

• It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare
• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. - Confucius
• Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development. - David Gottesman
• I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. - Sigmund Freud
• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. - Jewish Proverb
• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. - Imelda Marcos
• You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You're her oracle. You're her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you're in a constant state of panic. - Stanley T. Banks in the movie 'Father of the Bride'
• There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. - Samuel Johnson
• My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, on the death of his son
• A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. - Knights of Pythagoras
• I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen 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. - Mario Cuomo