Father Daughter Love Quotes:

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

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

- John Walter Bratton

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

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

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

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

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

- Fanny Fern

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

Never love anything that can't love you back.

- Bruce Williams

topic: Teenage, Love You, Teenage Love, Material Girl, Love My Dad

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

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

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

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

- Euripides

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

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

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

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

topic: Daughter, Honesty, Lilies, Mother And Daughter, Love My Daughter

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

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

There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

- Maureen Reagan

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

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

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

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert

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

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 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

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

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

- Erika Cosby

topic: Family, Father, Together, Inspirational Father, Great Father

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

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

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

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

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