Memorable Dad Quotes

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"Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough."
Wilhelm Busch
"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons."
Friedrich Schiller
"A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be."
Carol Coats
"I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: my mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future."
Liza Minnelli
"My father used to play with my brother and me in 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
"The greatest mark of a father is how well he treats his children when no one is looking."
Dan Pearce
"A father is someone you can never outgrow your need for."
Unknown
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"Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world."
John Mayor
"A father's love is forever imprinted on his child's heart."
Jennifer Williamson
"A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely."
Emile Gaboriau
"The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get."
Tim Russert
"To her, the name of father was another name for love."
Fanny Fern
"No man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much."
Hedy Lamarr
"It is a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance."
George Eliot
"A father is someone you look up to, no matter how tall you grow."
Unknown
"Dad: A son's first hero, a daughter's first love."
Unknown
"Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad."
Wade Boggs
"The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad."
Unknown
"To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."
Unknown
"No one in this world can love a girl more than her father."
Michael Ratnadeepak
"Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing dad."
Unknown
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"I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much."
Hedy Lamarr
"A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be."
Unknown
"When you need real understanding, when you need someone to care, when you need someone to guide you … A father's always there."
Thomas J. Langley
"A father's tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remain as a pillar of strength throughout our lives."
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
"The only thing better than having you as a husband is our children having you as their dad."
Unknown
"Dads are like chocolate chip cookies; they may have chips or be totally nutty, but they are sweet and make the world a better place."
Hillary Lytle
"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son."
The Talmud
"He adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector."
Tom Wolfe
"A daughter may outgrow your lap but she will never outgrow your heart."
Unknown
"The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking."
Dan Pearce
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me."
Jim Valvano
"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."
Wendell Phillips
"A father's job is not to teach his daughter how to be a lady. It's to teach her how a lady should be treated."
Unknown
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"Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing father."
Unknown
"When you need real understanding, when you need someone to care, when you need someone to guide you... A father's always there."
Thomas J. Langley
"Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development."
David M. Gottesman
"Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song."
Pam Brown
"A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men."
Gregory E. Lang
"My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it."
Clarence Budington Kelland
"When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back."
Linda Poindexter
"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."
Unknown
"The imprint of a father remains forever on the life of the child."
Roy Lessin
"Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow."
Reed Markham
"It is a wise father that knows his child."
William Shakespeare
"The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature."
Antoine François Prévost
"Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice."
Charles Kettering
"He didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it."
Clarence Budington Kelland
"A father is someone who has the pictures of his kids in his wallet where his money used to be."
Unknown
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope."
Bill Cosby
"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by the little scraps of wisdom."
Umberto Eco
"A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be."
Frank A. Clark
"A dad is someone who holds you when you cry, scolds you when you break the rules, shines with pride when you succeed, and has faith in you even when you fail."
Unknown
"Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad."
Anne Geddes
"The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams, and aspirations he sets not only for himself but for his family."
Reed Markham
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
Sigmund Freud
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."
Jim Valvano
"A father carries pictures where his money used to be."
Unknown
"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society."
Billy Graham
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
Charles Wadsworth
"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
William Shakespeare
"The imprint of the father, remains forever on the life of the child."
Roy Lessin
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
William Shakespeare
"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
"A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow."
Unknown
"To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter."
Euripides
"No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word―father."
Lydia Maria Child
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
George Herbert
"A father doesn't tell you that he loves you. He shows you."
Dimitri the Stoneheart
"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."
Margaret Truman
"A father is a son's first hero and a daughter's first love."
Unknown
"It's not a dad bod, it's a father figure."
Unknown
"Hi Hungry, I'm Dad."
Unknown
"I'm not sleeping, I'm just resting my eyes."
Every Dad ever
"Do you want to know why the stadium got hot after the game? Because all of the fans left."
Unknown
"Dad, did you get a haircut? No, I got them all cut."
Unknown
"I used to hate facial hair... but then it grew on me."
Unknown
"A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught me by example in one week."
Mario Cuomo
"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
Clarence Budington Kelland
"When I was a boy of 14, 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 the old man had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
Frederick Douglass
"The greatest thing a father can do for his children, is to love their mother."
Anjaneth Garcia Untalan
"My father was a man of few words. He always had a saying: 'Always be respectful to others. You never know who they might turn out to be.'"
Dick Vermeil
"There's really no point in being alive if you don't do the impossible."
Billy Crudup (as Will Bloom in Big Fish)
"You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes."
Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
"A father is a banker provided by nature."
French Proverb
"Dads are like chocolate chip cookies; they may have chips or be totally nutty, but they are sweet and make the world a better place, especially for their children."
Hillary Lytton
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
Bill Cosby
"I believe that what we become is the result of what we do with what we have been given."
Aldous Huxley
"A father's ability to become a mentor is crucial for his son's growth."
Unknown
"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."
Euripides
"Dads are most certainly not father figures. They are fathers."
Reese Witherspoon
"Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example, not his advice."
Charles Kettering
"A father's smile has been known to light up a child's entire day."
Unknown
"The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams, and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family."
Reed Markham
"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
"I cannot think of any greater good for the world than honest writers, and even less than honest fathers."
Unknown
"Being a father is learning about strengths you didn't know you had."
Rick Riordan
"Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys."
Unknown
"A father's job is to provide a sense of security and stability for his children."
Unknown
"No man can be a good father without being a good man."
Unknown
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
Unknown
"A father's love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."
Marion C. Garretty
"To a child, a father is a hero."
Unknown
"A father's hand is a child's first lesson in strength and protection."
Unknown
"The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other."
Mario Puzo
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