Browsing Topic Best Dad Quotes

All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles – someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.

My dad was and still is way before his time. You see, when someone is different—when they don’t act or look how a person assumed they would—the first reaction is often fear. They think, how do we break them? My dad anticipated that, but he would not allow himself or his family to be broken.

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.

My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father’s wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father’s care.

Without my dad, I wouldn’t be here.

I was in awe of my father. His generosity was beyond anything I ever could imagine. The reason I say he’s like Don Corleone is he was always breaking off hundreds. I’d be like, ‘Hey Dad, I’m going to McDonald’s with my friends,’ and he’d just whip out a hundred: ‘Here, go, have fun.’

I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won’t even start eating until he’s sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose.

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn’t want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.

I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values – even if they rarely talked about them.

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

I’m the fun dad, I am also the disciplinarian.

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn’t playing.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

My dad told me this a long time ago, never worry about what your next job is, just worry about what you are doing right then. As I grow older, I couldn’t agree more with that advice. Sometimes you get so worried about what’s next that you fail to appreciate what you have.

Male say they’re looking for a girl just like the girl who married dear old dad, but what they really want, and usually get, is an empty-headed little chick who’s very young and very physical -and very submissive.

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

I come from an ordinary family – my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker – and we’ve always loved racing together.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.

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

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he’d ever been when I came out.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.

It’s amazing to see there aren’t boundaries around gender. My menswear business has changed over the years as far as what men are daring to wear. And women, too. Men wanted to look tough, but now they realize you don’t have to look like your granddad or dad. You can show a more feminine side.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Children are all unique, so when you’re blending families it’s really important to get to know each individual child… Being a stepparent can be a really incredible opportunity. Sometimes children pay attention and listen to someone who’s not their blood parent. Sometimes I notice how my son Milo learns things from my best friends and people that have been around him, his grandparents and so on, in a way he can’t from his own mum and dad. It takes a village!

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.