Father's Day Quotes

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


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. -- Harmon Killebrew


One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.-- George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640


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


Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.-- William Wordsworth


Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.-- Clarence Budington Kelland


A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.-- Enid Bagnold