Dad Quotes

“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”

“Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. ‘Do you believe there is a devil?’ asked one. ‘No,’ said the other promptly. ‘It’s like Santa Claus: it’s your father.’”

“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.”

“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”

“Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions - because they know all the answers.”

“Always obey your parents, when they are present.”

“The father is always the Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.”

“When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?’ He answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.’”

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

“Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.” -

I hope you found this collection of quotes and ideas to be a good resource. My goal was to share key thoughts that inspire me to learn more about what it means to be a good Dad.

“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!”

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”

“If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.”

“Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.”

“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.”

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

“It is a wise father who knows his own child.” -William Shakespeare “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

“The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.”

“If you know his father and grandfather you may trust his son.”

“When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.”

“Until you have a son of your own . . . you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be.”

“There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.”

“He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”

“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”