Fathers Day Quotes From Daughters to Dads

Fathers Day Quotes From Daughters to Dads Fathers and daughters share a special bond. Reach out to the most special man in your life on Fathers Day  with one of these special messages  about the relationship between fathers and daughters.   Fanny Fern To  her, the name of father was another name for love. Anne Geddes Any man can be a father,  but it takes someone special to be a dad. Euripides To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter. Margaret Thatcher I just owe almost everything to my father [and] its passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. Margaret Truman Its only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home- its only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. Shakira I thank God that Im a product of my parents, that they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. Im grateful that I know where I come from. Anne Sexton It doesnt matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. Angelina Jolie And my dad:  youre a great actor but youre a better father. Gloria Naylor Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. Helen Hayes 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, Shes more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge. Enid Bagnold A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. Phyllis McGinley The thing to remember about fathers is, theyre 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 it took such months to get. John Gregory Brown Theres something like a line of gold thread running through a mans 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. John Mayer Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the God and the weight of her world. Garrison Keillor 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. Stanley T. Banks You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. Youre her oracle. Youre her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, youre in a constant state of panic. Anonymous They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her, a father adores his daughter. Whoever she grows up to be, she is always to him that little girl in pigtails. She makes him feel like Christmas. In exchange, he makes a secret promise not to see the awkwardness of her teenage years, the mistakes she makes or the secrets she keeps. Ashton Kutcher, on being a step-parent I like being what the girls call MOD- my other Dad. What Ive learned in the past year is that every kid is different. But as long as you love them and never forget that love, then you have the key. I think its all about just being there and loving them because kids feel that every single day. Alice Walker It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them  all. Margaret Atwood 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.