For most people, after moms, dads matter most, or simple vice-versa. Make your move to read on to discover for yourself a handful of popular quotes on fathers.
Quotes About Dad
There never has been one kid in this world who never thought his or her dad wasn't the best, wasn't the strongest or wasn't the mightiest. For when it comes to kids and dads, each kid's dad is the best and only that much better than the rest. Sadly, as the kid grows into a fine young man or beautiful young woman, the dad seems to get a lot weaker and maybe even less deserving of respect and love. A sad situation, don't you think, when a kid who thought of his dad as the mightiest man in the world begins to believe that his dad knows nothing at all. Despondently, this is the truth because the age of a kid just happens to be inversely proportionate to the amount of respect dished out to dad. It doesn't need to be this way, for each and every dad is worth tons and tons of respect. Here's presenting a bucketful of quotes which will only help you respect your dad so much more than you already are!
Popular Quotes On Fathers
- "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
There you go; quotes on dad that only help make your dad seem that much more precious to you. His presence in your life after all is the one thing that you really can't thank the heavens enough for!