No word makes me happier than the word “daddy” when it’s directed to me. – Michael Josephson
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. – Dinah Craik
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. — Charles Wadsworth
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GREATEST QUOTES ABOUT FATHERS AND FATHERHOOD
Being a father
It is much easier to become a father than to be one. — Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994
Any man can be a Father, but it takes someone special to be a dad. — Anne Geddes
Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both. — Michael Josephson
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” — Rev. Theodore Hesburgh
Most women take to mothering naturally; men are more likely to learn fathering on the job. – Michael Josephson
There are three stages of a man’s life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus. — Author Unknown
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. — Joseph Joubert
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – Bill Cosby
Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” — Exodus 20:12
Wisdom of a father
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. — Clarence Budington Kelland
My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” — Jim Fox
One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters. — George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
My father said, “Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?” — Dexter Scott King
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
Appreciating your father
Papa, You’re the greatest man I know. Thank you for always being there for me and guiding me. You’re the closest thing to a superhero. You know your dad’s awesome when you’d love him even if he wasn’t your dad. Lucky enough for me, he is my dad. Coolest dad I could ask for. I love you, Michael Josephson. Looking forward to many, many, many more years of annoying you.
- Your favorite daughter, Mataya Josephson June 17, 2012
Happy Father’s Day to the best father I know. You are so loving, caring and strong. I know you are always on my side and my biggest supporter. I love you, Daddy. Samara June 17, 2012
Happy Father’s Day to the best one I could ask for. Thank you for your unwavering support, for teaching me everything I know, and for loving me unconditionally. I love you more than you’ll ever know. Carissa, June 17,2012
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. — Dinah Craik
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 he had learned in seven years. – Mark Twain 1874
My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it. — Natasha Josefowitz
It’s only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home—it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. — Margaret Truman
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. — Mario Cuomo
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later… that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. – Tom Wolfe
Dad, you’re someone to look up to no matter how tall I’ve grown. — Author Unknown
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. — Charles Wadsworth
The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad! — Author Unknown
Father! – to God himself we cannot give a holier name. — William Wordsworth
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. — Ruth E. Renkel
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. – Author Unknown
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. – Gloria Naylor
My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne. – Hank Williams, Jr.
It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. — Anne Sexton
The treasure and wonder of fatherhood
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. — Unknown
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! — Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. — Author Unknown
The legacy of fatherhood
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. — John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. – Jean Paul Richter
