On this Father’s Day, we thought we’d share a few of our favorite quotes about dear old dad.

• 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 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain

• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. — William Shakespeare

• One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. — George Herbert

• A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. — Frank A. Clark

• It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. — Dawn French

• Until you have a son of your own… you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. — Kent Nerburn

• My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. — Jim Valvano

• It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. — Pope John XXIII

• I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. — Sigmund Freud

• “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” — Unknown

• “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising

boys.” — Harmon Killebrew

• A father carries pictures where his money used to be. —  Unknown