Ultimate Fathers Day Quotes: Text Quotations About Fathers Day - Quote these Fathers Day one liners in the Fathers Day Card you made for Papa and express your gratitude for all the pains he took to bring you up. Tell father how much he deserves to be appreciated and applauded for being the most wonderful person in your life.

• "A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma." -- Marlene Dietrich

• "Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. " -- Euripedes

• "Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." -- Exodus 20:12

• "My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' " -- Jim Fox

• "The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat." -- Robert Frost

• "You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular." -- Robert Frost

• "A father is a banker provided by nature." -- French Proverb

• "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud

• "Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad." -- Anne Geddes

• "Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development." -- David M. Gottesman

• "If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement." -- Antonio Gramsci

• "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

• "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- George Herbert

• "If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time." -- Russell Hoban

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

"A father is a banker...
provided by nature."

-- French Proverb

• "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life." -- Elbert Hubbard