Father's Day quotes

“Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.”

“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.”

“There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.”

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”

“I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there."”

“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

“To be as good as our fathers we must be better.”