Father's Day Quotes

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.  ~Author Unknown

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.  ~Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son:  Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994 

Any man can be a father.  It takes someone special to be a dad.  ~Author Unknown

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.  ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  ~Bill Cosby

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, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874

And, lastly, in memory of my own father...

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.  ~Gloria Naylor