Dad Quotes

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us.”

Umberto Eco

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.”

Charles Wadsworth

“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

“Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”

“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”

Ruth E. Renkel

“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”

Billy Graham

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

Enid Bagnold

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

Euripides

“Certain it is that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.”

Joseph Addison

“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.”

Jodi Picoult

“It is a wise child that knows his own father.”

Homer

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

George Herbert

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.”

Kahlil Gibran

“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”

“My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.”

Jerry Seinfeld

“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”

“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.”

“The love between a father and son is forever.”

Tim Russert

“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”

Fred Rogers

“Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”

Jim Henson

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

Frederick Douglass

“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”

Barbara Bush

“A father is a banker provided by nature.”

French Proverb

“Like father, like son.”

English Proverb