Fathers are often unsung heroes. They are like the directors, cinematographers, and producers of movies who are mostly behind the scene but still an integral part of movie production.
So as 89 countries come together tomorrow to celebrate father’s day, here are some quotes by thought leaders across the world celebrating the joys, sacrifices, and glory of fatherhood.
“A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.”
― sarah ruhl, Eurydice
“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”
― Lydia Maria Child
“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else’s body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
“A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.”
― Ama H.Vanniarachchy
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” – George Herbert
My dad’s not here, but he’s watching in heaven. – Bubba Watson
When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.” – Linda Poindexter
It was my father who taught me to value myself.
– Dawn Grench
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons
-Johann Schiller
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. – Charles Wadsworth
Father! — to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
~William Wordsworth
Small boy’s definition of Father’s Day: It’s just like Mother’s Day only you don’t spend so much.
— Unknown
Nature makes you a father. Love makes you a Dad.
– Pope
“Fathers do as they wish with their children. They break their hearts if it suits them, as easily as they would wring a chicken’s neck to make a meal!”
— Lewis Mallory”
“A man is measured by the depths of his commitments.”
― Mark William Goldman
“He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
“Being a dad is quite rewarding and even magical at times. It is our greatest chance to do something right in our lives that will keep making the world a brighter place even generations after we are gone.”
― Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying