Father’s Day Sayings

Heartfelt, inspiring, and funny words about dads — 115 sayings

My father is a white man. My mother is a black woman. I am a half-caste. But I don't see myself as a half-caste. I see myself as a whole man.

— Bob Marley 1970s
Wisdom

I never had a mother, a father, a brother, a sister. I had a grandmother, and she was a saint. She raised me. But I never had a mother.

— Billie Holiday 1956
Wisdom

Adieu, my dear children, I go to rejoin your father.

— Marie Antoinette 1793
Wisdom

My father always said, 'You can do anything. You can be anyone.'

— Malala Yousafzai 2013
Wisdom

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez Unknown
Wisdom

I hate my father. I'm going to sue my father and get rid of him.

— Amanda Bynes 2013
Wisdom

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community.

— Rod Blagojevich 2009
Wisdom

I get my background from my mother, who is Puerto Rican, and my father, who is Haitian. So I have this kind of third world background.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat 1986
Wisdom

I'm a little freaked out by the fact that I'm becoming my father. I find myself saying things like, 'Turn off the lights, I'm not paying to light the whole neighborhood!'

— George Carlin 2006
Wisdom

I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home, after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there.

— Harriet Tubman 1849
Wisdom

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

— Alexander the Great 340 BCE
Educational

Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

— Moses c. 13th-15th century BCE (traditional dating)
Biblical

Just as a father feels for his children, so does God feel for us.

— Erasmus 1503
Biblical

Doesn't your father give you a slap on your face?

— Deng Xiaoping 1980
General

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

— Pele 2012 (to French newspaper Le Monde), and repeated in other sources (e.g., 2015, 2021, 2022).
General

The problem with golf is that it takes up too much time. You don't have enough time to play all 18 holes.

— Dwight Eisenhower 1950s
General

I like to play golf. It's a good way to get away from the problems of the world.

— Dwight Eisenhower 1950s
General

I often think about what my father would have done.

— Aung San Suu Kyi 2010
General

I'm a father, but I'm not a disciplinarian.

— Allen Ginsberg Undetermined
General

I'm a boy who never grew up. I'm still running around in the backyard, playing with my toys.

— Ray Bradbury N/A
General
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