Quotes About Dad

• "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." - Clarence Budington Kelland
• "Father! To God himself we cannot give a holier name." - William Wordsworth
• "A father is always making his baby into a little woman.  And when she is a woman he turns her back again." - Enid Bagnold
• "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain
• "Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." - Ruth E. Renkel
• "If you know his father and grandfather you may trust his son." - Moroccan proverb
• "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• "Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad." - Unknown
• "Dads are stone skimmers, mud wallowers, water wallopers, ceiling swoopers, shoulder gallopers, upsy-downsy, over-and-through, round-and-about whoosers. Dads are smugglers and secret sharers." - Helen Thomson
• "Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so." - Pam Brown
• "Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes." - Gloria Naylor
• "4 years: My Daddy can do anything! 7 years: My Dad knows a lot…a whole lot. 8 years: My father does not know quite everything. 12 years: Oh well, naturally Father does not know that either. 14 years: Oh, Father? He is hopelessly old-fashioned. 21 years: Oh, that man-he is out of date! 25 years: He knows a little bit about it, but not much. 30 years: I must find out what Dad thinks about it. 35 years: Before we decide, we will get Dad's idea first. 50 years: What would Dad have thought about that? 60 years: My Dad knew literally everything! 65 years: I wish I could talk it over with Dad once more." - Anonymous
• "The greatest gift I ever had. Came from God; I call him Dad!" - Unknown
• "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." - Anne Sexton
• "It's only when you grow up and step back from him - or leave him for your own home-it's only then that you can measure his great-ness and fully appreciate it." - Margaret Truman
• "It's not the fishin'. It's the time together." - Author Unknown
• "Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys." - Anonymous
• "The first man a little girl falls in love with is her Dad." - Unknown
• "There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus." - Unknown
• "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." - John Gregory Brown
• "When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry." - Jewish Proverb
• "When I measure myself I always use Dad as a guide." - Author Unknown