Dad Quotes: Words of Wisdom and Love for Fathers Everywhere

"All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right."

"You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward. - Andre Agassi Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching--and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book. - Laurie Notaro Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them. - Angela Carter I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.” I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume. - Bill Gates We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying to teach our children how to get along in the world, and that we believe this is our job. A child who can fend for himself is a lot safer than one forever coddled, because the coddled child will not have Mom or Dad around all the time, even though they act as if he will. - Lenore Skenazy My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.' - Mindy Kaling A father carries pictures where his money used to be. - Steve Martin Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.’ - Josh McDowell But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can’t. Or won’t. - Edward Bloor"

Dad Quotes can serve as a concise roadmap for life. They are pearls of wisdom passed down from fathers to children, but their reach extends beyond familial bounds. Each quote carries a lesson - sometimes profound, sometimes simple, but always meaningful. They can guide you through the valleys and peaks of your existence. I urge you to take some time to reflect on each quote, extract its essence, and apply it to your life. Remember, different quotes may touch us differently at various stages of our lives. So, keep revisiting them, you may find a new perspective in the same set of words.

"Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?"

"Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection. - Michelle Obama There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy? - Will Smith 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 - Tom Wolfe It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. - Harper Lee When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. - William Shakespeare When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. - Robert Frost I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be. - Cecelia Ahern 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. - Umberto Eco"