Dad Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of dad quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
– Pope John XXIII

“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

“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.”
– Halle Berry

“I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.”
– Joel Osteen

“My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.”
– Eminem

“Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.”
– John Ciardi

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

“My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.”
– Beau Bridges

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

“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.”
– Bertrand Russell

“Babies don’t need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.”
– Amy Heckerling

“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”
– Kent Nerburn

“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”
– Margaret Mead

“I just wish I could understand my father.”
– Michael Jackson

“There’s sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.”
– Dean Koontz

“I pressed my father’s hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.”
– Chief Joseph

“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”
– Frank A. Clark

“Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.”
– Horace

“Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.”
– Michael Reagan

“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
– Anais Nin

“When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he’d learned in three years.”
– Frank Butler

“Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.”
– William Hurt

“I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.”
– Orson Scott Card

“Whenever I fail as a father or husband… a toy and a diamond always works.”
– Shahrukh Khan

“All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.”
– George Eliot

“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

“My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.”
– Pete Rose

“The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”
– Bertrand Russell

“Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?”
– Dick Clark

“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.”
– Gertrude Stein

“I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn’t. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You’re looking at a real daddy.”
– Barry White

“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
– Aldous Huxley

“I’m more comfortable with whatever’s wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn’t measure up to the standard he set.”
– John Malkovich

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