Father’s Day Sayings

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

I am a living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. It is possible for each of you to attain to that.

— Abraham Lincoln 1864
General

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

— Alexander the Great Before 336 BCE
Food & Drink

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 1966
Justice & Rights

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

— Dwight Eisenhower Unknown (post-presidency)
Food & Drink

I left my heart in San Francisco. My father left his in a sanitarium. My mother left hers in a shoe box in the attic.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald Uncertain
General

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

— Jack Kerouac 1950s
General

I never had a mother, never had a father, never had a home, I never had a husband. I just had me.

— Billie Holiday 1950s
General

My father is a genius. My father is a genius, but I don't know why he's so mean to me.

— Michael Jackson 1993
General

I'm a father. And I try to be a good father. But I'm not perfect.

— Eminem 2000s
General

My father always told me that you can turn a negative into a positive. That's why I'm so competitive.

— Michael Jordan 1993
General

Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn.

— Madonna c. 2008
Food & Drink

He is my father, and I will treat him as such.

— Richard the Lionheart 1189
General

I am a peasant's son; my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were genuine peasants.

— Martin Luther c. 1530s
Self-Deprecating

My father always told me, 'Grace, you can do anything you want, you just have to work for it.'

— Grace Hopper 1980s
Work & Money

My father was a sportsman and a hunter, and he taught me to shoot when I was very young. I was always interested in what made things go.

— Wernher von Braun 1960s
Self-Deprecating

I'm a pretty good cook. I make a mean chili. And I make a pretty good grilled cheese sandwich.

— Barack Obama 2016
Food & Drink

I am his daddy. You want me to be yours too?

— Flavor Flav 2024
Self-Deprecating

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.

— Bertrand Russell Approx. 1920s-1950s
Shocking

I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven.

— Allen Ginsberg Undated, likely later in his life
Shocking

I always wanted to be like my father. He was a great football player.

— Pele 2010
Food & Drink
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