Dad Quotes

“I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.”

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”

Harry S. Truman

“Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one of the last aristocracies.”

Calvin Trillin

“Parents love their children as being a part of themselves.”

“Mother and father are called the first teachers.”

“Children are a poor man's riches.”

English Proverb

“Children are the bridge to heaven.”

Persian Proverb

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”

Native American Proverb

“All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.”

Albert Einstein

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

Pablo Picasso

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.”

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”

“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.”

Fran Lebowitz

“A son is a son till he takes him a wife; a daughter's a daughter all of her life.”

English Proverb

“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.”

Billy Graham

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

Pericles

“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”

Confucius

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”

Cicero

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

Meister Eckhart

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

William Arthur Ward

“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”

Victor Hugo

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence.”

Thich Nhat Hanh