Dad Quotes

“To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.”

Dave Barry

“My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.”

“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.”

Garrison Keillor

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

James Baldwin

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

Robert Fulghum

“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”

Charles R. Swindoll

“Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.”

Frank Pittman

“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”

Friedrich Schiller

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

Theodore Hesburgh

“If things go your way, it's good; if they don't, it's even better.”

Harivansh Rai Bachchan

“The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.”

English Proverb

“To understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself.”

Chinese Proverb

“One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.”

German Proverb

“When a father helps a son, both smile; but when a son must help his father, both cry.”

Yiddish Proverb

“Having a two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.”

Jerry Seinfeld

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.”

Paula Poundstone

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing.”

“Be true to yourself. Help others. Make each day your masterpiece.”

“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”

Lee Iacocca

“Kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.”

Barbara Kingsolver

“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.”

Hodding Carter

“In the final analysis, it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.”

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

Abigail Van Buren

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

Benjamin Spock