Daughter To Father Quotes:

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

- Jim Valvano

topic: Basketball, Fathers Day, Dad, Father Died, Inspirational Father

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

- Fanny Fern

topic: Dad, Father, Names, Inspirational Father, Great Father

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

- Euripides

topic: Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad, Mom And Daughter, Inspirational Father

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

- Anne Geddes

topic: Relationship, Dad, Father, Special Someone, Inspirational Father

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert

topic: Relationship, Daughter, Fathers Day, Inspirational Father, Great Father

I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

- Lady Gaga

topic: Dad, Men, My Daughter, Daughter To Father, Father Daughter Love

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Fathers Day, Son, Giving, Sons Love, Inspirational Father

My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.

- Bindi Irwin

source: Eulogy for Steve Irwin, delivered 19 September 2006

topic: Fun, Hero, Daddy, Always There For Me, Daughter To Father

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Birthday, Daughter, Fathers Day, Mom And Daughter, Son And Daughter

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

- Anne Sexton

source: "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

topic: Death, Daughter, Fathers Day, Loss Of A Parent, Father Died

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

- Gloria Naylor

source: Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.185, Open Road Media

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad, Father Died, Inspirational Father

The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!

- John Walter Bratton

topic: Dad, Daddy, Father Died, Inspirational Father, My Dad Died

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Mother, Daughter, Father, Daughter To Father, Father Daughter Love

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong, Joys Of Childhood, Inspirational Father

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

- Enid Bagnold

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Baby, Mom And Daughter, Father Died

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

- Jim Bishop

topic: Daughter, Dad, Being Single, Mom And Daughter, Mother And Daughter

There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

- Maureen Reagan

topic: Heaven, Special, Caregivers, Great Father, Dad Love

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

- Pope John XXIII

topic: Fathers Day, Children, Dad, Inspirational Father, Being A Father

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

- Bruce Barton

topic: Relationship, Birthday, Children, Inspirational Parents, Mother And Daughter

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Running, Lake Wobegon, Dad Love

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Men, Inspirational Father, Daughter To Father

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

- Kent Nerburn

topic: Fathers Day, Father, Easier, Inspirational Father, Great Father

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

- Paul Walker

topic: Girl, Mom, Fathers Day, Inspirational Father, Daughter To Father

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

- Wynonna Judd

topic: Mother Daughter, Daughter, Mother, Mom And Daughter, Mother And Daughter Relationship

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Clarence Budington Kelland

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Loss, Sons Love, Father Died

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

- Lydia M. Child

topic: Family, Fathers Day, Dad, Inspirational Father, Great Father

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ...

- Phyllis McGinley

topic: Father, Believe, Scratches, Qualms, Qualms About

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

- Margaret Ann Courtney

topic: Daughter, Father, Glee, Daughter To Father, Father Daughter Love

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

- Mario Cuomo

source: 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

topic: Inspirational, Hard Work, Simple, Inspirational Father, Daughter To Father

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

- David Gottesman

topic: Mother, Daughter, Father, Inspirational Father, Like A Mother

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

- Helen Hayes

topic: Daughter To Father, Brooklyn Bridge, Father Child, Funny Father, Funny Happy Fathers Day

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

- James Truslow Adams

topic: Daughter, Stars, Teenage, Mother And Daughter, Astronomers

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

topic: Daughter, Home, Treasure, Mother And Daughter, Daughter To Father

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

- Jean de La Fontaine

source: "Fables (Book III)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

topic: Boyfriend, Daughter, Father, Daughter To Father, Cute Fathers Day

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

topic: Beautiful, Daughter, Dad, Great Father, Dad Love

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

- Imelda Marcos

source: TIME magazine, November 11, 1996.

topic: Girl, Daughter, Fathers Day, Material Girl, Daughter To Father

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

- Johnnetta B. Cole

topic: Daughter, Profound, Alive, Mom And Daughter, Mother And Daughter

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

- Bruce Barton

topic: Mom, Daughter, Memories, Mom And Daughter, Joyful Moments

People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.

- Ziauddin Yousafzai

topic: Wings, People, Special, Being A Father, Daughter To Father

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

- Hugh Jackman

topic: Mother, Running, Daughter, Daughter To Father, Love My Daughter

He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.

- Margaret Truman Daniel

source: "On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Growing Up, Inspirational Father, Great Father

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

- Theodore Hesburgh

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Family, Marriage Advice

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

source: Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad, Great Father, Daughter To Father

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

- Guy Lombardo

topic: Daughter, Strong, Teenage, Daughter To Father, Teenage Daughter

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

- John Gregory Brown

source: John Gregory Brown (2001). “Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Daughter, Running, Men, Inspirational Father, Mother And Daughter

Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

- John Walter Bratton

topic: Daughter, Dad, Hero, Dad Love, Daughter To Father

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock - full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I took such months to get.

- Phyllis McGinley

topic: Girl, Daughter, Father, Qualms, Qualms About

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Family, Wise, Meaningful, Inspirational Father, Merchant Of Venice