Beautiful Quotes to Share With Your Stepdad on Father's Day
- 1/43
1) Jonathan Van Ness
“When someone takes you on as their own when you’re not biologically their own, I think is really special....[My stepdad] didn’t have to raise me. He wanted to.”
Country Living - 2/43
2) Justin Timberlake
“My stepdad is probably the greatest man I’ve ever known. The best advice I’ve ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life, because one day I’m not going to be as agile as I am now.”
Country Living - 3/43
3) Jim Valvano
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.”
Country Living - 4/43
4) Frederick Buechner
“You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you, but...you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”
Country Living - 5/43
5) Delia Ephron
“If you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it’s very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.”
Getty Images - 6/43
6) Flea
“I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.”
Getty Images - 7/43
7) Antoine-François Prévost
“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”
Getty Images - 8/43
8) Isabel Allende
"My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather."
Country Living - 9/43
9) Bruce Linton
"Becoming a father is a challenge to any man's psyche and there is a fundamental reorganization that you cannot avoid when you begin this journey."
Country Living - 10/43
10) Unknown
"A dad is someone who wants to catch you before you fall but instead picks you up, brushes you off, and lets you try again."
Country Living - 11/43
11) Valerie J. Lewis Coleman
"Step-parenting is like working at a late-night convenience store...all of the responsibility and none of the authority."
Country Living - 12/43
12) Unknown
"A child cannot have too many people who love them and want to help them succeed."
Country Living - 13/43
13) Unknown
"A stepparent is so much more than just a parent: They made the choice to love when they didn't have to."
Design: Rebekah Lowin - 14/43
14) Brian Urlacher
"My mom is my heart. But my stepdad was my role model, the hardest working man I ever knew."
Design: Rebekah Lowin - 15/43
15) Wade Boggs
"Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right."
Design: Rebekah Lowin - 16/43
16) Al Hodson
"The only steps in this house are the stair steps and the only half in this house is the half & half creamer."
Design: Rebekah Lowin - 17/43
17) Abraham Lincoln
"No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child."
Design: Rebekah Lowin - 18/43
18) Unknown
"A stepfather means so many things... an understanding heart, a source of strength, and of support, right from the very start."
Design: Rebekah Lowin - 19/43
19) Unknown
"A good stepparent can literally turn the life of a child around."
Design: Rebekah Lowin - 20/43
20) Ray Johnson
"It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table."
Design: Rebekah Lowin - 21/43
21) Tom Wolfe
"He adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector."
Design: Rebekah Lowin - 22/43
22) Justin Ricklefs
"The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched."
Design: Rebekah Lowin - 23/43
23) Margaret Truman
"It’s only when you grow up and step back from him—or leave him for your own home—it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it."
Design: Rebekah Lowin - 24/43
24) Johann Schiller
"It's not flesh and blood but the heart that makes us father and son."
Design: Rebekah Lowin - 25/43
25) Ashley Stock, The Stepdad
“He never treated me like I was a package deal. I wasn’t a burden in his eyes, I was a bonus.”
Design: Eddie Phan - 26/43
26) Unknown
“Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a stepdad.”
Design: Eddie Phan - 27/43
27) Dave Willis
"Family isn’t defined only by last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and by love.”
Design: Eddie Phan - 28/43
28) Azriel Johnson
“Stepparents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather to augment a child's life experience.”
Design: Eddie Phan - 29/43
29) Tony Gaskins
“Any man can help make a child, but it takes a special man to help raise a child."
Design: Eddie Phan - 30/43
30) Gerardo Campbell
“My stepdad may not have given me life, but he sure has made my life better."
Design: Eddie Phan - 31/43
31) Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
“Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.”
Design: Eddie Phan - 32/43
32) Johann Schiller
"It's not flesh and blood, but the heart that makes us father and son."
Design: Eddie Phan - 33/43
33) Barack Obama
"Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father."
Design: Eddie Phan - 34/43
34) Brad Paisley, Didn’t Have to Be
“Lookin' back all I can say about all the things he did for me is I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.”
Design: Eddie Phan - 35/43
35) Unknown
“We aren’t ‘step,’ we aren’t ‘half,’ we’re just family.”
Design: Eddie Phan - 36/43
36) Michael J. Fox
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
Design: Eddie Phan - 37/43
37) Sigmund Freud
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”
Design: Eddie Phan - 38/43
38) Leigh Anne Tuohy
“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.”
Design: Eddie Phan - 39/43
39) Unknown
“Family not by birth but by good fortune, I’m so lucky to have you in my life.”
Design: Eddie Phan - 40/43
40) Matthew L. Jacobson
“Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first."
Design: Eddie Phan - 41/43
41) Unknown
"A stepparent is so much more than just a parent; they made the choice to love when they didn't have to."
Design: Eddie Phan - 42/43
42) Barbara Bush
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
Design: Eddie Phan - 43/43
43) Unknown
“Fatherhood requires love, not DNA.”
Design: Eddie Phan
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