Fifteen Father's Day quotes seem inappropriate to use past the celebration of Father's Day. However, children can always find reason to appreciate their Dads. Sometimes, they just find it difficult to search for the words to say. Huffington Post reported that "Father's Day cards are frustratingly insincere." They often lack any real sentiment about what the buyer's father or grandfather is actually like as a person since it is full of jokes. Listed below are some excerpts about fathers that may be helpful in expressing how you feel towards them:
1. I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. - Imelda Marcos
2. "Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs." - Pam Brown
3. "I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election." - Margaret Thatcher
4. It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. - Pope John XXIII
5. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! - Lydia M. Child
6. To her the name of father was another name for love. - Fanny Fern
7. Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys. - Anonymous
8. "The righteous man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him." - Proverbs 20:7 (NKJV)
9. "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." - Clarence Budington-Kelland
10. 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
11. "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." - Sigmund Freud
12. 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
13. 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
14. You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together. - Erika Cosby
15. Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. - Joseph Joubert
