In honor of Father's Day on June 19th, here are some fantastic quotes about fathers.
In honor of Father’s Day this Sunday, we’ve rounded up a few great quotes about fathers. Whether you are a Dad yourself, or you’re paying tribute to your own father, we hope you enjoy the day!
“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”—Ruth E. Renkel
“A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.”—Unknown
“A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be.”—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
“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
“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
“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
“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 he had learned in seven years.” —Author unknown