Here are Several Links to Father's Day Quotes
- Father's Day Poetry
Here's a couple of touching and thoughtful poems about fathers, each from a man's perspective. - Father's Day Reflections
Here's a great reflection for Father's Day on what a Father is and what a Son is by Paul Harvey, one of my favorite commentators and writers ever. Enjoy! - Happy Father's Day!
Here's a few poems expressing how much we appreciate and acknowledge Dad. - Poems About Grandfathers
Remember that Grandpa counts on this day too!A FEW MORE FATHER QUOTATIONS:
- "My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn."
-- Louis Adamic - 'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."
-- Aeschylus - "Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are."
-- Louisa May Alcott - "I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."
-- Alexander the Great - "A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. "
-- Enid Bagnold - "A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station."
-- Bill Cosby - "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 - "A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."
-- Marlene Dietrich - "Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. "
-- Euripedes - "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 - "My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'""
-- Jim Fox - "The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. "
-- Robert Frost - "You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular."
-- Robert Frost - "A father is a banker provided by nature."
-- French Proverb - "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. "
-- Sigmund Freud - "Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. "
-- Anne Geddes - "Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers- and fathering is a very important stage in their development."
-- David M. Gottesman - "When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, 'She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.'"
-- Helen Hayes - "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
-- George Herbert - "If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."
-- Russell Hoban - "For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
-- Homer

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