Father's Day Quotes for Everyone

Expressing how you feel about your dad on Father's day is not easy for everyone. If you have trouble expressing how you feel, you can always use a quote. Listed are ten quotes by famous writers, comedians, and reverends. We even included a rights activist and a pianist.

Thoughtful Father's Day Quotes:

1. "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Theodore Hesburgh

Theodore Hesburgh is a reverend practicing for the Congregation of the Holy Cross. He is also Notre Dame's President Emeritus. This is a great quote for people who value their family. This quote means that it is important to teach your children love by your own actions to others. Setting an example of how a family should love each other will set a great foundation for a child's future relationships.

2. "A child who is allowed to be disrespectful of his parents will not have true respect for anyone." - Billy Graham

Billy Graham is the famous evangelist belonging to the Southern Baptist Convention. This is a great quote for children to use for either Father's day or Mother's day. It means that if your children do not have respect for you, they won't have respect for anyone else.

3. "Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" - Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child was an activist who fought for the rights of many minorities including women, African Americans, Native Americans, and other groups. This would be a great greeting card quote. It describes the joy of being a father. It serves to remind people that it is a privilege to be a dad.

4. "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." - Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton was a writer and poet. As such, she had a very poetic way of describing the relationship between father and child. There is a difference in who you are to the world, which may be very insignificant, and who you are to your children. A good father would care more about the opinion of the later.

5. "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." - Clarence Budington Kelland

Clarence Budington Kelland was also a writer. This a great quote about setting an example for your children. It states that telling them how to live isn't the way to go; you have to show them by example.

6. "It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons." - Johann Schiller

Johann Schiller was a famous German who was a dramatist, philosopher, poet, and historian. This is a great heartfelt Father's day quote. It is definitely true that anyone can be a biological dad but not everyone can be a father. It takes a lot more than DNA to be someone's father.

Humorous Father's Day Quotes:

7. "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." - Charles Wadsworth

Charles Wadsworth was a pianist with a great way of putting feelings into music or words. This quote is a great way of saying that children usually think their parents are wrong, until they are old enough to experience it for themselves. Than the cycle continues as the children try to pass on their wisdom to their own children. This is also a great quote for a grandfather on Father's day.

8. "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." - Mark Twain

Mark Twain, or Samuel Clemens, was a famous author and humorist. This is another quote about how young individuals can't see how right their parents are until they are older. It is only then, that they have experienced enough to know that their parents have experience so much more than that.

9. "It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge." - Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller is a famous female comedian and actress. She has a humorous way of bringing up the point that males naturally want to be fathers even though fatherhood is so much work. Whether or not it is worth it is a matter of opinion, but American's have an average of more than one child a piece so maybe most agree that it is worth it.

10. "Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected." - Red Buttons

Red Buttons was a comedian as you can tell from this humorous quote. As most parents already know, children always seem to hit you in your most vulnerable spots. This a great quote for someone looking for a laugh.