Dad Quotes

31. I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

^{Harrison Ford}

32. I just wish I could understand my father. – Dad Quotes

^{Michael Jackson}

33. When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

^{Robert Bly}

34. As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. – Dad Quotes

^{Gloria Swanson}

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

^{Victor Borge}

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

^{E. B. White}

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

^{Enid Bagnold}

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

^{Ray Romano}

39. My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

^{Amy Sedaris}

40. Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted. – Dad Quotes

^{Michael Reagan}

41. My father… had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

^{Chief Joseph}

42. There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

^{Gertrude Stein}

43. My father-in-law gets up at 5 o’clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don’t know why there’s this big rush to do this. – Dad Quotes

^{Jeff Foxworthy}

44. 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.

^{Adam Sandler}

45. Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. – Dad Quotes

^{Joseph Joubert}

46. My father taught me how to substitute realities.

^{Mira Sorvino}

47. I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

^{Joel Osteen}

48. Fathers in today’s modern families can be so many things. – Dad Quotes

^{Oliver Hudson}

49. There’s sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

^{Dean Koontz}

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

^{William Hurt}

51. My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker. – Dad Quotes

^{Anthony Hopkins}

52. My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

^{Simon Newcomb}

53. Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

^{John Ciardi}

54. All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

^{George Eliot}

55. Child-rearing is my main interest now. I’m a hands-on father. – Dad Quotes

^{Sean Penn}

56. I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

^{Charley Pride}

57. No, I never thought about my father’s money as my money. – Dad Quotes

^{Christie Hefner}

58. The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

^{DeForest Kelley}

59. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

^{David Rockefeller}

60. When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed. – Dad Quotes

^{Lou Brock}

61. Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

^{Friedrich Nietzsche}

62. Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

^{Prince Charles}

63. A father’s disappointment can be a very powerful tool. – Dad Quotes

^{Michael Bergin}

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

^{Bertrand Russell}

65. My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone. – Dad Quotes

^{Damon Wayans}

66. Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

^{Sam Ewing}

67. Thirteen, 13 children, and I love – I love them all. And I think I’ve been a good father to all of them.

^{Anthony Quinn}

68. I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

^{Harrison Ford}

69. A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad. – Best Dad Quotes

^{Lenny Kravitz}

70. My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can’t be.

^{Robert Mapplethorpe}

71. My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.

^{Janis Joplin}

72. I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father. – Best Dad Quotes

^{Annette Funicello}

73. I’m a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

^{John Lithgow}

74. I pressed my father’s hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land. – Best Dad Quotes

^{Chief Joseph}

75. One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

^{Camryn Manheim}

76. I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn’t. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You’re looking at a real daddy.

^{Barry White}

77. It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father. – Best Dad Quotes

^{Jean de La Fontaine}

78. Rich men’s sons are seldom rich men’s fathers. – Best Dad Quotes

^{Herbert Kaufman}

79. Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

^{Adam Sandler}

80. My dad always said, ‘Don’t worry what people think, because you can’t change it.’ – Best Dad Quotes

^{Daisy Donovan}

81. My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother. – Best Dad Quotes

^{Broderick Crawford}

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

^{Christopher Meloni}

83. I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

^{Orson Scott Card}