FATHERS DAY 2023: ODE TO FATHERS - "My Father Believed In Me"

(06/18/2023)
Memorable quotes to honor dads on this Father's Day:

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Harry S. Truman

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. William Penn

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me. Jim Valvano

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. Jean Paul Richter

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

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. Mark Twain

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

A father carries snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be. Anonymous

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

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Henry Ward Beecher

It is much easier to become a father than to be one. Kent Nerburn