"Dad": Three Little Letters That Stand for So Much

Sunday, June 17th is Father's Day, but who says that we can't celebrate our dads every day? In that spirit, we're sharing some of our favorite quotes about dads and what they mean to us.

"The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature."   

-- Antoine-François Prévost

"It is a wise father who knows his own child."

-- William Shakespeare

"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."

-- Ruth E. Renkel

"A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be."

 -– Frank A. Clark

"It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons."

-- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

"A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow."

-- Unknown 

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."

--George Herbert

"To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter." 

-–Euripides

"A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way."

--Unknown