Quotes, Poems, and Sayings for Father's Day Cards and Gifts

21 Quotes, Poems, and Sayings for Father's Day Cards and Gifts

One

My father would lift me high / And dance with my mother and me and then / Spin me around till I fell asleep / Then up the stairs he would carry me / And I knew for sure I was loved.

- Jim Valvano

Two

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

- Luther Vandross

three

Lately all my friends are worried that they're turning into their fathers. I'm worried that I'm not.

- Dan Zevin

four

What Is A Dad?

A dad is someone who
wants to catch you before you fall
but instead picks you up,
brushes you off,
and lets you try again.

A dad is someone who
wants to keep you from making mistakes
but instead lets you find your own way,
even though his heart breaks in silence
when you get hurt.

A dad is someone who
holds you when you cry,
scolds you when you break the rules,
shines with pride when you succeed,
and has faith in you even when you fail...

- Author Unknown

Five

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare

Six

He wasn't a hero
known by the world.
But a hero he was
to his little girl.

- Rebecca D. Cook from her poem Memories of My Dad

Seven

There should be a children’s song: ‘If you’re happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep.'

- Jim Gaffigan

Eight

It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.

- John Sinor

Nine

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

- Peter de vries

Ten

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

- Shannon L. Alder

Eleven

Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.

- Habeeb Akande

Twelve

The Gift by Li-Young Lee

To pull the metal splinter from my palm

my father recited a story in a low voice.

I watched his lovely face and not the blade.

Before the story ended, he’d removed

the iron sliver I thought I’d die from.

I can’t remember the tale,

but hear his voice still, a well

of dark water, a prayer.

And I recall his hands,

two measures of tenderness

he laid against my face,

the flames of discipline

he raised above my head.

Had you entered that afternoon

you would have thought you saw a man

planting something in a boy’s palm,

a silver tear, a tiny flame.

Had you followed that boy

you would have arrived here,

where I bend over my wife’s right hand.

Look how I shave her thumbnail down

so carefully she feels no pain.

Watch as I lift the splinter out.

I was seven when my father

took my hand like this,

and I did not hold that shard

between my fingers and think,

Metal that will bury me,

christen it Little Assassin,

Ore Going Deep for My Heart.

And I did not lift up my wound and cry,

Death visited here!

I did what a child does

when he’s given something to keep.

I kissed my father.

Thirteen

If you're flying with your children, it's best to book them on the same flight and not on one where they have more legroom and are leaving at a different time. They could get there earlier than you, and that causes resentment. Two-year-olds can also never figure out those connecting flights. It just makes it harder, so travel as a family.

- Advice on fatherhood from Will ferrell

Fourteen

I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father … I have rarely ever met a person more fearless and courageous than my father … The thing that I admire most about my dad is his genuine Christian character. He is a man of real integrity, deeply committed to moral and ethical principles. He is conscientious in all of his undertakings … If I had a problem I could always call Daddy.

-Martin Luther King Jr.

Fifteen

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Sixteen

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

- Friedrich Schiller

Seventeen

Silent Strong Dad by Karen K. Boyer

He never looks for praises
He's never one to boast
He just goes on quietly working
For those he loves the most
His dreams are seldom spoken
His wants are very few
And most of the time his worries
Will go unspoken too
He's there.... A firm foundation
Through all our storms of life
A sturdy hand to hold to
In times of stress and strife
A true friend we can turn to
When times are good or bad
One of our greatest blessings,
The man that we call Dad.

Eighteen

He who fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for his children it will be a refuge.

- Proverbs 14:26

Nineteen

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

- Hedy Lamarr

Twenty

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

-Umberto eco

Twenty-one

It’s only when you grow up and step back from him–or leave him for your own home–it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it.

- Margaret truman