Father Quotes, Sayings About Dads


I’m a father; that’s what matters most. Nothing matters more.
Gordon Brown

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Giordano Bruno

Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.
Elias Hicks

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
Antonio Porchia

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught my the game and you taught me how to play it right.
Wade Boggs

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

A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.
Anonymous

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

Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.
John Mayor

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.
Robert Frost

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
Charles Peguy

Dad thank you for your nurturing light, for the wisdom of your laughter, and all the joy you bring us.
Anonymous

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Voltaire

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren’t through being children.
Cindy Garner

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
Anonymous

Father I will always be
that same boy who stood by the sea
and watched you tower over me
now I’m older I wanna be the same as you
Yellowcard

To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one.
Alexandra Kerry

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

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
Gertrude Stein

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
Damon Wayans

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
Treat Williams

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
Charles Wadworth

My Father When I Was…
4 years old: My daddy can do anything.
5 years old: My daddy knows a whole lot.
6 years old: My dad is smarter than your dad.
8 years old: My dad doesn’t know exactly everything.
10 years old: In the olden days when my dad grew up, things were different.
12 years old: Oh, well, naturally, Father doesn’t know anything about that. He is too old to remember his childhood.
14 years old: Don’t pay attention to my Father. He is so old-fashioned!
21 years old: Him? My Lord, he’s hopelessly out-of- date.
25 years old: Dad knows a little bit about it, but then he should because he has been around so long.
30 years old: Maybe we should ask Dad what he thinks. After all, he’s had a lot of experience.
35 years old: I’m not doing a single thing until I talk to Dad.
40 years old: I wonder how Dad would have handled it. He was so wise and had a world of experience.
50 years old: I’d give anything if Dad were here now so I could talk this over with him. Too bad I didn’t appreciate how smart he was. I could have learned a lot from him.
Anonymous

Those who trust us educate us.
T.S. Eliot

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
Anonymous

No, I never thought about my father’s money as my money.
Christie Hefner

He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland

If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.
Chinese Proverb

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