43 Father-Son Quotes to Make Dad Smile on Father's Day 2023
These funny and sentimental messages will help you put the father-son relationship into words.
Like father, like son. And as Father's Day nears, it's good to start thinking on how to celebrate your dad for the ways he's shaped you into the man you have become. What to say though? Here we have 43 father-son quotes to put into words the bond between you two.
Look through them all and find the one that feels the most right for your dad to write in a Father’s Day card to go along with a gift (even if he says he wants nothing!) or to serve up with Father's Day breakfast. These quotes can also make the perfect caption for your Father's Day posts about dear ole dad on Instagram. And don't worry, they are all short quotes too, so no need for hand cramping. Looking for some words more likely to make him laugh? We've got the best dad jokes too to inspire what to say to Dad this Father's Day too.
No matter what you say or what your relationship dynamic, there's one thing for sure: he'll appreciate anything from his best buddy—his son. As we quote Johann Schiller saying, "It's not flesh and blood but the heart that makes us father and son."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God, God never spoke.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”
Yiddish Proverb
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
Nina LaCour, Hold Still
“He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.”
Ken Norton
"Of all the titles I’ve been privileged to have, 'Dad' has always been the best."
Frank Pittman
"Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man."
The Talmud
"When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son."
Antoine Francois Prevost
"The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature."
George Strait
"Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end."
Matthew Buckley
"Being a father means you have to think fast on your feet. You must be judicious, wise, brave, tender, and willing to put on a frilly hat and sit down to a pretend tea party."
Aldous Huxley
"Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers."
Steve Chapman
"Becoming a dad is one thing—being a dad is many things."
H. Jackson Browne
"Life doesn’t come with an instruction book—that’s why we have fathers."
Billy Graham
"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society."
Ed Skrein
"I am a family man, and my most important role is a father to my son."
Nishan Panwar
"A son needs his father at every situation he faces in present, and a father needs his son at every situation he faces for his son in past."
George Eliot
"It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance."
Johann Schiller
"It's not flesh and blood but the heart that makes us father and son."
Charles Wadsworth
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong."
Walter M. Schirra, Sr.
"You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in our own eyes."
Jennifer Aldrich was the editorial assistant for CountryLiving.com.
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