Father's Day Quotations

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

"A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season."
~ Anonymous

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

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
~ English Proverb

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

"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

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
~ Mark Twain

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world-so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal."
~ Victoria, Queen of England

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

"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all."
~ J. August Strindberg

"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

"Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee."
~ Margaret Courtney

"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right."
~ Bill Cosby