With June 15th right around the corner, the time couldn’t be better for some great Father’s Day quotes. Whether you’re a boy or girl, woman or man, there is a person in your life who had a big impact on who you happen to be today. Not just how you act, but what your history is, what you appear like and maybe even how your jeans fit. These twelve Father’s Day quotes go out to all of the fantastic dads out there.

1. “My father used to play with my brother and me inside 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

2. “A father is often making his baby into somewhat woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.” ~ Enid Bagnold

3. “It truly is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.” ~ Johann Schiller

4. “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how a lot he had learned in seven years.” ~ Mark Twain

5. “If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.” ~ Bill Cosby

6. “I cannot feel of any want in childhood as strong as the need to have for a father’s protection.” ~ Sigmond Freud

7. “The thing to remember about fathers is, they’re men. A girl has to maintain it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find a person chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing alter is a threat – like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle it took such months to obtain.” ~ Phyllis McGinley

8. “A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes towards the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.” ~ Bill Cosby

9. “A father is a banker provided by nature.” ~ French Proverb

10. “Any man may be a Father but it takes someone particular to be a dad.” ~ Anne Geddes

11. “By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” ~ Charles Wadsworth

12. “My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” ~ Clarence B. Kelland

Father’s Day is like so many of those other holidays that should really be celebrated every day of the year. Unfortunately, many of us get caught up inside the day-to-day hustle and bustle of life. This Father’s Day remind Dad how unique he is and take some time with these twelve Father’s Day quotes.

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