Daughter To Father Quotes

But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.

It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.

Father-daughter has a lot of layers, I find.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.

I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance and I cried like a little baby. She's 11 years old, so seeing her get dressed up and pretty made me cry.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

I feel like that's a way people can change the way music is - to be guided by someone they believe in and trust. Larson and I really believed in each other. It was like brother/sister, father/daughter, we were laughing and yelling, that's how it is when you make an album! Essentially the trust was there and I got something great.

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.

There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

Never love anything that can't love you back.

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock - full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I took such months to get.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.

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

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

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

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

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

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!

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

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

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

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.

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.

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

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.

My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

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

It is a wise father that knows his own child.