Great Father Quotes for Dad
to Let Him Know You Care

I’ve provided a wonderful collection of quotes about Dad that are great for putting in a card or letter to let him know how much you love and appreciate him. Let your father know you care, not just on his birthday or Father’s Day, but for any old reason.

"Fathers are angels sent from heaven."
~ Author Unknown

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

"The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad!"
~ Author Unknown

"One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters."
~ George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

"Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever."
~ Author Unknown

"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example."
~ Mario Cuomo

"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."
~ Mario Cuomo

"A father is someone that holds your hand at the fair
makes sure you do what your mother says
holds back your hair when you are sick
brushes that hair when it is tangled because mother is too busy
lets you eat ice cream for breakfast but only when mother is away
he walks you down the aisle and tells you everythings gonna be OK."
~ Author Unknown

"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 he had learned in seven years."
~ Mark Twain

4 years: My Daddy can do anything!
7 years: My Dad knows a lot…a whole lot.
8 years: My Father does not know quite everything.
12 years: Oh well, naturally Father does not know that either.
14 years: Oh, Father? He is hopelessly old-fashioned.
21 years: Oh, that man-he is out of date!
25 years: He knows a little bit about it, but not much.
30 years: I must find out what Dad thinks about it.
35 years: Before we decide, we will get Dad's idea first.
50 years: What would Dad have thought about that?
60 years: My Dad knew literally everything!
65 years: I wish I could talk it over with Dad once more.
~ Author Unknown

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

"It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life."
~ Dawn French

"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

"I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart."
~ Terri Guillemets

If you have not found the right token of appreciation for your father, check out the following links for a greater selection:

• Father’s Day Quotes
• Quotes About Father
• Inspirational and Funny Videos About Fathers