19 Jun 15 Popular Father’s Day Quotes
Background – To honor her late father and others (the victims of the Monongah Mining Disaster, which claimed 361 men — 250 of whom were fathers), Grace Golden Clayton organized the first Father’s Day church service July 5, 1908, in Fairmont (pop. 19,097) at Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church to honor fatherhood and paternal bonds.
Listed below are my top 15 Quotes –
Top 15 Quotes
- “Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.” – Robert Orben
- “Don’t make a baby if you can’t be a father.” – National Urban League Slogan
- “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” — Jim Valvano
- “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” — Sigmund Freud
- “A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”
- Rev Billy Graham
- “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh, Catholic Priest and President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame / Anjaneth Garcia Untalan
- “It is much easier to become a father than to be one.” – Kent Nerburn, U.S. Author, and Educator
- “Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!” – Lydia M. Child, U.S. Author
- “We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.” – George Will, U.S. Journalist
- “It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.” – Pope John XXIII
- “He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” –Clarence Budington Kelland
- “A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- “The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.” – Confucius
- “By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” – Charles Wadworth
- “The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.” – Austin O’Malley
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