Dad Quotes

"I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please."

"A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be."

"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."

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

"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

"My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic."

"The child is father of the man."

"That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all."

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

"My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad."

"It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life."

"I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect."

"Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful."

"But the love of adventure was in father's blood."

"When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away."

"My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States."

"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents."

"The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world."

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

"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"

"When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years."

"It is impossible to please all the world and one's father."

"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."

"If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now."

"My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense."

"My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it."

"Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works."

"I just wish I could understand my father."

"A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool."

"My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'"