“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, ibtimes.co.uk
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.”— Charles Wadworth, ibtimes.co.uk
“A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.”— Carol Coats, ibtimes.co.uk
“The reason why daughters love their Dad the most is…that there is at least one man in the world who will never hurt her.”— Anonymous, thoughtcatalog.com
“He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn’t afraid to go into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When a…”— Erma Bombeck, thoughtcatalog.com
“They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her, a father adores his daughter. Whoever she grows up to be, she is always to him that little girl in pigtails. She makes him feel like Christmas. In exchange, he makes a secret promise not to see the awkwardness of her teenage years, the mistakes she…”— Anonymous, thoughtcatalog.com
“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”— Joseph Addison, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.”— Hedy Lamarr, thoughtcatalog.com
“A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.”— Ama H. Vanniarachchy, thoughtcatalog.com
“Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?”— Kiran Desai, amazon.com
“There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.”— Joni Eareckson Tada, amazon.com
“Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.”— Makrus Zusak, Liesel, amazon.com
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”— Umberto Eco, amazon.com
“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father...Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don’t you think?”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“My dad was obsessed with documents and contracts. At Christmas, we would have ‘gift’ documents in our stockings with ‘A One Hour Talk With Your Father About The Meaning Of Life’ written on. At the time we’d all moan about it. He loved to talk big stuff with us. Now that I have lost my father, I’d gi…”— Kim Kardashian, elleuk.com
“Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.”— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, amazon.com
“My father raised us well. He made sure we were surrounded by good people, taught us to always confront the things we feared, and to try to be the best at whatever we did.”— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, amazon.com