Best Dad Quotes

You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other.

I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world.

You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.

I'm working from home a lot. That's very unusual because I'm away a lot, sometimes working on the other side of the world for long periods of time. So, it's hard to manage in the sense that I want to be the best dad I can be but it's almost harder when you have your kids outside the door.

I may not be the best dad but I taught my son how to get free samples at the mall.

There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

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

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.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.

If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The only Father's Day tradition in my family is the annual conversation he and I have where I say, 'Hey, Dad, what do you want for Father's Day this year?' and he says, 'Nothing.' Then I ask my mom what I should get him and she says, 'He likes sandalwood soap, dangly jewelry and Chanel No. 5 perfume.'

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

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.