Father's Day Quips and Quotes:

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

-Johann Schiller

The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

-Theodore M. Hesburgh

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys. -Unknown

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

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

-Frank A. Clark

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

-- Garrison Keillor

"A wise son maketh a glad father."

-- Proverbs 10:1

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

-- Ruth E. Renkel

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms

when his hands are empty.

- Unknown

Honor thy father and thy mother.

-- Matthew 19:19