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He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.
Sep 29, 2025
My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.
I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.
The older I get the more I can see How much he loved my mother and my brother and me And he did the best that he could And I only hope when I have my own family That everyday I see a little more of my father in me.
I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.
The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.
There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.
One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
A man's worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.
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.
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.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
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.
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.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.
My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
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.