Love My Dad Quotes:

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

- John Walter Bratton

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

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

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

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Family, Mother, Fathers Day, Inspirational Father, Step Dad

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

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Inspire, Dad Love, Love My Dad

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

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert

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

I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.

- Liv Tyler

topic: Boyfriend, Dad, Father, Dad Love, Love My Dad

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Funny, Fathers Day, Dad, Father Died, 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

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

- Confucius

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

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe

- Tom Wolfe

topic: Children, Father, Boys, Inspirational Father, Being A 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

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

- Kent Nerburn

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

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

Never love anything that can't love you back.

- Bruce Williams

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

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

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

- Kent Nerburn

source: Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.21, New World Library

topic: Father, Heart, Son, Love My Dad, Personal Demons

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

- August Strindberg

topic: Fathers Day, Enemy, Position, Great Father, Love My Dad

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

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Comfort, Great Father, Dad Love

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

- Mario Cuomo

source: Time Magazine, June 02, 1986.

topic: Marriage, Father, Years, Father Died, Inspirational Father

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

- Anne Frank

topic: Inspirational, Growing Up, Women, Good Character, Many Paths

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

- Robert Frost

topic: Family, Mother, Dad, Happy Family, Deserve You

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Funny, Fathers Day, Kids, Great Father, Dad Love

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Fathers Day, Struggle, Son, Love My Dad, Father And Son

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

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

- Euripides

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

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

- Norah Jones

topic: Dad, Good Relationship, Very Good, Love My Dad, I Love My Dad

My dad (Scott Swift) believed in me, even when I didn't.He always knew I could do this. I’m sure that everyone in Reading remembers how much he talked about me. I thought that was sweet, but really I just wasn’t as sure it would happen. So, I just love my dad for believing in his little girl.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Girl, Sweet, Dad, Love My Dad

My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through my mom and dad I learned about love, family and respecting people. They never went to high school but they had within them every element that makes a great American. They had pride and a great work ethic and they knew how to do things the right way.

- Dick Vitale

topic: Mom, Dad, School, Love My Dad, Doctorates

I love my brother, I love my dad, actually love my mother as well, hope that's ok. And I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make.

- Jeb Bush

source: "A familiar ring as Bush says he's his 'own man'" by Brenna Williams, www.cnn.com. February 18, 2015.

topic: Love, Mother, Brother, Love My Dad, Love My Brother

Man, if it weren't for Bill's Records and Tapes I would've been an accountant like my dad. I love my dad, but thank God for Bill's.

- Ryan Miller

topic: Dad, Men, Thank God, Love My Dad, I Love My Dad

I love my dad; I'm a daddy's girl, all the way.

- Molly Quinn

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Girl, Dad, Way, Love My Dad, I Love My Dad

I love my dad. He's the biggest thing in my life. He taught me and he straightened me out and he kept me in line. If it hadn't been for him standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today.

- Anthony Perkins

topic: Dad, Lines, Today, Love My Dad, I Love My Dad

...Something about, 'I love my dad, I love my dad, makes me feel better when I'm sad ... I love you to the moon and back.

- Peter Facinelli

topic: Dad, Love You, Feel Better, Make Me Feel Better, I'm Sad

I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with duct tape. One time, he brought a television home. I said, 'Damn, that TV has 500 channels.' When I got older, it didn't have 500 channels - it was a knob from the oven. My favorite channel was 300 degrees.

- Felipe Esparza

topic: Dad, Home, Degrees, Love My Dad, I Love My Dad

I love my dad. He used to be a professional wrestler in Mexico. So it was cool growing up with him, because when he hit us, he didn't really hit us.

- Felipe Esparza

topic: Growing Up, Dad, Mexico, Love My Dad, I Love My Dad

A black widow loves her mate then kills him. A praying mantis loves her mate then eats him. Women love my dad, but he's too big to eat.

- Christopher Titus

source: "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

topic: Dad, Praying Mantis, Black, Love My Dad, Black Widow

I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!

- Christopher Titus

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Jobs, Dad, Father, Drifters, Love My Dad