Father Quotes, Sayings About Dads - Page 5

A Dad is someone to look up to no matter how tall you’ve grown.
Anonymous

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
Mario Cuomo

I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
Beverly Cleary

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

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

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Richard Henry Dana

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don’t get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don’t have to do as much, like you don’t go on as many outings.
Hugh Jackman

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
Kate DiCamillo

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
Red Buttons

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
Jean Paul Richter

There is no place higher than on Daddy’s shoulders.
Anonymous

I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
Gary Oldman

What you have inherited from your father, you must earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.
Johann Wofgang von Goethe

Happy is the father whose child finds his attempts to amuse it, amusing.
Robert Lynd

Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what’s in him and what’s been given him.
Laurence Rockefeller

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, what the world means, what anything means, until he has a child and loves it.
Lafcadio Hearn

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O’Malley

There’s a bathroom in heaven for the father of girls.
Anonymous

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

I have a Father’s Day every day.
Dennis Banks

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.
Josefowitz

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can’t really say anything about his hearing.
George Kennedy

Father, whom I murdered every night but one,
That one, when your death murdered me.
Howard Moss

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father’s hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
William Barclay

I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.
Patti Davis

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

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
Denis Diderot

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents – but first you have to know them.
Greta Scacchi

A father is a source of strength,
A teacher & a guide,
The one his family looks up to
With loving trust & pride. . .
A father is a helper
With a willing hand to lend,
A partner, an advisor,
And the finest kind of friend.
Anonymous

There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father – and how come that’s not as newsworthy?
Will Smith

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