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As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Sep 29, 2025
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 love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.
Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.
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.
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
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.
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.
It was my father who taught me to value myself.
Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.
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.
To her, the name of father was another name for love.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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