“And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.”
The Bible (Genesis 50:1)
LossFather And Son
Dad Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DAD
Dad Quotes
Read 200 of the best dad quotes about fathers, fatherhood and a father's love, perfect for Father's Day cards and captions, from Shakespeare, the Bible and more.
“For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words.”
The Bible (Proverbs 4:3-4)
Lessons From DadLove
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.”
The Bible (Psalm 27:10)
ComfortFaith
“I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms.”
The Bible (Hosea 11:3)
TeachingFather's Love
“Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.”
The Bible (Luke 15:22)
ForgivenessCelebration
“Though his father die, yet he is as though he were not dead: for he hath left one behind him that is like himself.”
The Bible (Sirach 30:4)
LegacyLike Father Like Son
“He is the kind of man, indeed, to whom I should never dare refuse anything, which he condescended to ask.”
Jane Austen
Funny DadSarcasm
“No, Lizzy, let me for once in my life feel how much I have been to blame. I am not afraid of being overpowered by the impression. It will pass away soon enough.”
Jane Austen
Funny DadHonesty
“What larks!”
Charles Dickens
Father FigureFun
“God bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, God bless you!”
Charles Dickens
Father FigureBlessing
“I'm a going to seek her, fur and wide.”
Charles Dickens
DevotionFather Figure
“It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live.”
Victor Hugo
LifeFather Figure
“Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: love for one another.”
Victor Hugo
LoveLast Words
“Father will come to his babe in the nest, silver sails all out of the west.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
LullabyComing Home
“My father was a farmer upon the Carrick border, O, and carefully he bred me in decency and order, O.”
Robert Burns
UpbringingTribute
“The saint, the father, and the husband prays.”
Robert Burns
FaithFamily
“O dearest, dearest boy! my heart for better lore would seldom yearn, could I but teach the hundredth part of what from thee I learn.”
William Wordsworth
Learning From ChildrenFather And Son
“The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, anger'd, unjust.”
Walt Whitman
Honest PortraitChildhood
“Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art, no language, but the language of the heart.”
Alexander Pope
TributeSimple Wisdom
“Never spend your money before you have it.”
Thomas Jefferson
Dad's AdviceMoney
“Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night sailed off in a wooden shoe.”
Eugene Field
BedtimeChildhood
“Bye, baby bunting, Daddy's gone a-hunting.”
Mother Goose
LullabyProvider
“You say that father writes a lot of books, but what he writes I don't understand.”
Rabindranath Tagore
FunnyChildhood
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy
FamilyLife
“There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
MemoriesHome