39 Quotes For Father’s Day That Feel Personal

“My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.”

“I have seen my father struggle every day to pursue his dreams and that has taught me to never give up on mine.”

“My father was stricter than what I am with my kids, but that has made me what I am today.”

“I ask myself what my father would think of me making it to the NBA every day. I hope he's proud. I hope he's watching down and realizing that his dream became a reality.”

“My father was as involved as he could be. He was busy, but called me every day. He knew what was happening in school, and even came for my tennis matches.”

“My father had a great sense of humor. He wasn't only the Man in Black. He said it himself in the song 'Man in Black:' 'Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day.' He was a man of hope.”

“I wouldn't be the man today, where I am, without my father, so I love my father, that's my guy.”

“You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy.”

“My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was amazed at the size. Would I ever be big enough to fill his shoes? Could I ever grow into the man my father was? I wondered.”

“My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.'”

“My father was a foreman on building sites and he was really good at getting a day's work out of fellas. And he did it without being a tyrant. He was a good guy.”

“My father always told me to be myself and say what you think is the right thing; sometimes you pay the consequences, but it means tomorrow will be a happy day for you.”

“My main influence was my father. He was a great high school coach. I thought one day, if I got lucky, I could be a head high school coach.”

“You have to work at becoming a better husband, a better father, a better brother and a better son, because I understand it's an everyday thing. You have to work to be better in relationships and solve problems.”

“I remember reading the book 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad,' and I remember writing my goals down, and my number one goal in life was just to be a good husband and a good father someday. That was number one, as a 17-year-old kid.”

“I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.”

“I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn't.”

“My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam.”

“To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!”

“I grew up mainly in the Far East, where my father worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which was then a small, well-run colonial institution and not the global colossus it is today.”

“My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.”

“My father was adept at making up limericks about place names we encountered on holidays or others using the names of new people we met.”

“My parents had this extraordinary circle of friends. My father would be photographing somebody every day, someone from the world of the arts, a politician, a musician, a sportsman.”

“When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.”

“One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'”

“My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a writer someday. My father would nag me, but I didn't write a word till he passed away. I wish he could see me now.”

“After my father died, we went to church for a long time every day, and then every other day during the summer.”

“My father is with me every day. Although he passed away in 2003, he continues to live on inside me and through me - at home and work, on crowded subway cars and busy sidewalks.”

“I really try every day. I really try to come into work thinking about what rhetoric I'm going to put out in the world and what my father would've done if he was still here.”

“My father passed away in 2005, and day after, I sat in my flat in Woolwich on my bed, and I feel that I saw him.”

“My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.”

“I was told by my father nine times a day that you were going to get a job the minute you finish your studies.”

“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.”

“The day I stopped fearing my father was the day I could enjoy him.”

“Father's Day used to be the only day you'd say I love you to your dad.”

“What we need to do is open our eyes, smell the coffee and just understand what the society has become. Today, I can discuss many things with my 15-year-old son which I could not talk about with my father.”

“I don't think you need a particular day to dedicate to your dad or to make your father or parents feel special. A child should make his or her parents feel special every day and vice versa.”

“I know when my father travelled 5,000 miles to make his home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to be its leader.”

“My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!”