Father's Day quotes

A collection of quotes on the topic of anniversary, father's day, for father, father.

Best father's day quotes

“There's no friends like the old friends.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It's easier to build strong children then repair broken men.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Variant: It is easier to build strong men, than to repair broken ones.
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”

Haile Selassie (1892–1975) Emperor of Ethiopia

Statement after his speech before the League of Nations (30 June 1936), as quoted in " "The Lion is Freed" in TIME magazine (8 September 1975) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917777,00.html?iid=chix-sphere

“My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.”

Spike Milligan (1918–2002) British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor

“No love is greater than that of a father for His son.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

“I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”

Eric Rücker Eddison book A Fish Dinner in Memison

A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941)
Context: The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.

“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. ”

Antoine François Prévost (1697–1763) French novelist

“As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Frederick Douglass quote: “It's easier to build strong children then repair broken men.”

Father's Day quotes

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

"The Poet's Story," January 1, 1972 entry
A Small Journal (1974)

For Father

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

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Smile, Thinking, For Father

“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 (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Not found in Twain's works, this was attributed to him in Reader's Digest (September 1939): no prior attribution known. Mark Twain’s father died when Twain was eleven years old.
Disputed
Variant: When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Boy, Learning, For Father

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

Joni Eareckson Tada (1949) American artist

Love, Soul, Cry, For Father