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My dad (Scott Swift) believed in me, even when I didn't.He always knew I could do this. I’m sure that everyone in Reading remembers how much he talked about me. I thought that was sweet, but really I just wasn’t as sure it would happen. So, I just love my dad for believing in his little girl.
Sep 29, 2025
I love my dad. He used to be a professional wrestler in Mexico. So it was cool growing up with him, because when he hit us, he didn't really hit us.
I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.
...Something about, 'I love my dad, I love my dad, makes me feel better when I'm sad ... I love you to the moon and back.
Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.
I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with duct tape. One time, he brought a television home. I said, 'Damn, that TV has 500 channels.' When I got older, it didn't have 500 channels - it was a knob from the oven. My favorite channel was 300 degrees.
I love my dad; I'm a daddy's girl, all the way.
Until you have a son of your own . . . you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through my mom and dad I learned about love, family and respecting people. They never went to high school but they had within them every element that makes a great American. They had pride and a great work ethic and they knew how to do things the right way.
I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!
I love my brother, I love my dad, actually love my mother as well, hope that's ok. And I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make.
I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
A black widow loves her mate then kills him. A praying mantis loves her mate then eats him. Women love my dad, but he's too big to eat.
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Never love anything that can't love you back.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.
Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
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.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
I love my dad. He's the biggest thing in my life. He taught me and he straightened me out and he kept me in line. If it hadn't been for him standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
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 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.
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
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Man, if it weren't for Bill's Records and Tapes I would've been an accountant like my dad. I love my dad, but thank God for Bill's.
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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