“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.”— Émile Gaboriau, christianitydaily.com
“Dads are like chocolate chip cookies; they may have chips or be totally nutty, but they are sweet and make the world a better place, especially for their children.”— Hilllary Lytle, christianitydaily.com
“'I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world!' 'Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better.' 'Impossible...'”— George Eliot, Mary, amazon.com
“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
“There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.”— Joni Eareckson Tada, 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
“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough f…”— Adriana Trigiani, amazon.com