Over at my primary online home, I have the tagline that “Life’s better when you have the right words.” I truly believe this. I think the right syllables strung together can stick with us for our own personal eternity.

In celebration of Father’s Day tomorrow, I thought it would be nice to list a small handful of my favorite fatherhood quotes.

Enjoy!

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
~ William Shakespeare

“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
~ Ruth E Renkel

“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 the old man had learned in seven years.”
~ Mark Twain

“I’ve had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.”
~ Bartrand Hubbard

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

“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
~ Enid Bagnold

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

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~ Kent Nerburn

“One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.”
~ Anonymous

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

“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.  Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply.  ‘We’re raising boys’.”
~ Harmon Killebrew

“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
~ Clarence Budington Kelland

“A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.”
~Author Unknown

“There are three stages of a man’s life:  He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus.”
~Author Unknown

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