Fathers Day Quotations

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said, "Box about: twill come to my father anon."

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.