Daddy, thanks for being my hero, chauffeur, financial support, listener, life mentor, friend, guardian and simply being there every time I need a hug.

Alison Lohman

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.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remain as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.

Arab Proverb

Bindi Irwin

My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.

Chance The Rapper

My best smile is probably when I'm holding my daughter.

Christopher Hitchens

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.

David Duchovny

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

Dawn French

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

Dusty Baker

I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.

Dr. James Dobson

A good father will leave his imprint on his daughter for the rest of her life.

Dumitru D. Coman

My life is a fairy tale because it revolves around a princess—my beautiful daughter.

Elaine S. Dalton

The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.

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Elton John

It was a reminder that you only get so long, that you never know what’s around the corner. Maybe that gave me some real clarity about what was important to me about life. Why try and deny how you really feel, deep down, about something as fundamental as fatherhood?

Emily Henry

What I didn't know to expect is that today, I would feel like I'd been born too. You have made a new person: January's father. And I know this is who I will be for the rest of my life.

Emily Mortimer

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

Emily VanCamp

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

Emily Mortimer

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

Euripides

To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Fanny Fern

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

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.

Gloria Naylor

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Greg Louganis

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

Gregory E. Lang

A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against she will judge all men.

Guy Lombardo

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

Guy Ritchie

I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.

Gwyneth Paltrow

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

Hall Caine

He was all iron outside, but all father within.

Halle Berry

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

Harper Lee

She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father.

Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

Daughters need their dads. And only a dad can be a dad.

Fatherhood is important to me. I've taught my daughter to cherish nature, to nurture her spirituality, to love herself, to love others, to exploration science, and to seek wisdom and understanding. I make it a point to cultivate those things in her, in the way that only a father can.

I'm so grateful — the love me and my daughter Chaya share is so powerful and so potent and so pure. What we give each other is unconditional and unrestrained love. We pour that love into each other, and we embrace that love from each other with thankful hearts. So much so, that parts of ourselves live within the other. Nothing and no one could separate us. Nothing and no one could jeopardize our love. That's the magnitude of our daddy daughter love. That's me and Chaya.

Honoré de Balzac

I, and I only, am to blame for all their sins; I spoiled them. To-day they are as eager for pleasure as they used to be for sugar-plums. When they were little girls I indulged them in every whim. They had a carriage of their own when they were fifteen. They have never been crossed. I am guilty, and not they—but I sinned through love.

Hugh Jackman

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.

Idris Elba

I watch my daughter wanting to be like other kids and getting upset that she's not. But I always try and instill in her the idea that she's perfect as she is.

J. Richard Singleton

No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.

Jake Owen

I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.

James Earl Jones

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

James T. Adams

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11:30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

Jason Reynolds

Again, dove into each other. This time the hug, a mix of I miss you and who are you and I'm confused and I'm cracking and I don't know what the hell to do or where the hell to go. My father's hand gripped my back as I did my best to bury myself in his armpit, to get lost in the new and strangely familiar feeling of fatherhood.

Jim Bishop

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Jim DeMint

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.

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Joe Rigney

My one-year-old walks up to me with arms outstretched. I can see it in his eyes. He is searching for something: approval, affirmation, acceptance. The kind that only a father can give. He is hungry for a father's love, for the Father's love. Either the laughter in my eyes, the smile on my face, and the strength and tenderness of my arms will tell the truth about God, or their absence will blaspheme the Father of lights. My son is reaching for me, and looking for God. My son, the theologian.

Jimmy Fallon

Dads immediately fall in love with their little girls and will let them get away with everything. So, moms are going to have to be the disciplinarians when it comes to daughters.

John A. Passaro

Today is not the real Father's Day. It is the man made version. The real Father's Day are the other 364 other days of the year that I get to see my boys grow into men and my girls grow into ladies and feel I had a slight part of the people that they turned out to be. Not a better feeling in the world. With every life lesson taught, half of which are understood at the time, and the other half that are understood after I am told to stop being ridiculous - EVERYDAY is Father's Day. And I wouldn't trade it for the world. Good and bad. I can honestly say there is no feeling on earth, like being a father and a dad.

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John Birmingham

When a parent dies, for those left behind it can feel as though half the sky has fallen. My father was the sheltering sky, and beneath his mild firmament no storm ever raged, no hard rain fell.

John Denver

At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.

John Leguizamo

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

John Mayer

Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.

John Sinor

It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.

Johnny Vegas

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

Joseph Addison

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

Josh Hatcher

So, you’re handed a baby and a new name (Daddy) and you now have to choose to accept the challenge. Here’s the thing. I don’t believe that rejecting it’s an option. I mean, people DO reject it. But you shouldn’t. You choose then and there to be a father. And you make that choice, day in and day out to make sure their needs are met, that the example is set for them, that they are loved, cherished, corrected, and challenged. You have to choose it.

Kazuo Koike

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.

Kevin Hart

I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby. She’s 11 years old, so seeing her get dressed up and pretty made me cry.

Kristan Higgins

There should be some drug for fathers of teenage girls. Something that calmed your heart so it didn't practically rip through your chest. Something that could soothe the fury your daughter could inspire, the absolute terror that something unspeakable would happen to her, the almost murderous sense of protection. Something that would give you the words to tell her that no one would ever love her as much as dear old dad, and if she just listened to him, she'd have a much easier time of things and be safe from boys who ruined her life.

Lady Gaga

I love my Daddy. My Daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

Laura Gentile

He would not live the life of his daughter by falling apart and not giving her anything but anticipated grief and collateral heartache. He wanted to imprint paternal love on her body. Maybe she would be strong and regenerated enough to stay, and maybe his intense affection would work its magic.

Linda Poindexter

When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.

Liza Minelli

My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams.

Lydia Maria Child

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word - father.

Lydia Netzer

A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.

Mandi Hart

I think it's much easier for a man to have children than for children to have a father. Children need their fathers more than we think. A father spurs a child on to succeed. A fathers love gives his children wings and confidence in life.

Mark Maish

Every child grows up thinking their father is a hero or villain until they are old enough to realize that he is just a man.

Martin Sheen

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to.

Matt Haig

I loved her, instantly. Of course, most parents love their children instantly. But I mention it here because I still find it a remarkable thing. Where was that love before? Where did you acquire it from? The way it is suddenly there, total and complete, as sudden as grief, but in reverse, is one of the wonders about being human.

Matthew McConaughey

The only thing I ever knew I wanted to be was a father. To me, fatherhood meant a man had made it in life. Growing up, I said “yes sir” and “no sir” to my father and his friends because they were fathers. Fatherhood, what I most revered in life, what I was most impressed with, was now what I was about to become more involved with. The message of manhood that came to me at my own father’s passing had newborn relevance as I became one myself. Yes sir.

Marinela Reka

Being a daddy’s girl is like having a permanent armor for the rest of your life.

Marisol Santiago

A girl’s first true love is her father.

Marlin S. Potash

A good father loves his daughter with no strings attached. He is available. He is both strong and tender. Being big and strong doesn't mean being separate from one's feelings; to the contrary, it means being very much in touch with them. Women who experienced fathers like that know that a strong man can cry, and that a man who can cry can also be very strong.

Mat Johnson

A man’s daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world.

Melanie White

You gotta love dads. At my wedding, when I tripped on my wedding dress and fell flat on my face, Dad said, ‘Don’t worry, you’ll do better next time.

Michael Josephson

One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight and demanded that you watch everything they do and listen to everything they say.

Michael Ratnadeepak

No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.

Miley Cyrus

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

Miranda Lambert

I've dated all kinds of guys and didn't know who I'd end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not.

Mitch Albom

If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

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Natasha Josefowitz

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

Nina George

...having a child is like casting off your own childhood forever. It's as if it's only then that you really grasp what it means to be a man. You're scared too that all your weaknesses will be laid bare, because fatherhood demands more than you can give.... I always felt I had to earn your love, because I loved you so, so much.

Nitya Prakash

Confident women are raised by loving dads.

Orson Scott Card

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Philippa Gregory

I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?

Randy Harrison

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

Richelle E. Goodrich

A father’s success does not depend upon his ability to work and provide, to guard and protect, or to lecture and discipline. A father’s success does not depend upon his ability to guide and govern, to instruct and demonstrate, or to remedy and repair. A father’s success does not depend upon his ability to understand and relate, to adapt and change, or to entertain and play. A father’s success does, however, greatly depend upon his ability to love and be loved.

Richard L. Ratliff

Fathers and daughters have a special bond. She is always daddy’s little girl.

Robert Carlyle

I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

Ryan Reynolds

I don't have to prepare to be wrapped around my daughter's finger. I have been wrapped around her little finger since the day she plopped out into this world.

Sachin Ramdas Bharatiya

For father, his daughter is no less than a breath.

Sage Steadman

He was not being courageous as he bore the freezing stream for his wife and children. He simply chose between the lesser of two evils—the pain and suffering he would endure in the river, a physical pain that he could stand to bear, or the pain and suffering he would feel if he had to watch his family wade across and freeze. It was not a decision. The choice had already been made the moment Ole proposed marriage to his wife and welcomed these beautiful daughters into the world.

Samuel L. Jackson

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life…

Sammy Davis, Jr.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

Sarah Morgan

This is embarrassing.” Hannah sniffed. “I'm too old to be crying on your shoulder.” “You're never too old to cry on your dad's shoulder, although I have to admit I hate to see you cry.”

Sarah Orne Jewett

My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

Scott Spencer

He welcomes the chance to do fatherly things with the little girl, and those ten morning minutes with dear little four-year-old Ruby, with her deep soulful eyes, and the wondrous things she sees with them, and her deep soulful voice, and the precious though not entirely memorable things she says with it, and the smell of baby shampoo and breakfast cereal filling the car, that little shimmering capsule of time is like listening to cello music in the morning, or watching birds in a flutter of industry building a nest, it simply reminds you that even if God is dead, or never existed in the first place, there is, nevertheless, something tender at the center of creation, some meaning, some purpose and poetry.

Sean Norris

Some boys grow up to be great men, some grow up to be great fathers, and while most grow up to be neither, none grow up to be both.

Sean Thompson

Fatherhood is my religion.

Stanley Behrman

When my daughter says, ‘Daddy, I need you!’ I wonder if she has any idea that I need her billion times more.

Stanley T. Banks

You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You’re her oracle. You’re 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, you’re in a constant state of panic.

Stella Payton

Beautiful is the man who leaves a legacy that of shared love and life. It is he who transfers meaning, assigns significance and conveys in his loving touch the fine art and gentle shaping of a life. This man shall be called, Father.

Stephen Colbert

My daughter said, ‘Why are you yelling at us?’ and I said, ‘I’m trying to discipline you!’ And then she looked up at me with her tear-stained eyes and said, ‘This is how you teach children, by making them cry.’ And it was such a clenching reminder — she won not only the argument, but she won life with that statement. I just burst out laughing, and I think they were so surprised that I burst out laughing, that they did too.

Susan Gale

A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day.

Taylor Swift

My dad believed in me, even when I didn't. He always knew I could do this.

Terri Guillemets

I love my father as the stars - he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.

Tracy Morgan

Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. This is my only girl. So, I don’t care what it takes to protect her. You can call it what you want to call it. As long as you treat her the same way I treat her, like my princess, I don’t mind.

Unknown

A father is a son’s first hero and a daughter’s first love.

I may find my prince, but my dad will always be my king.

A father’s job is not to teach his daughter how to be a lady. It’s to teach her how a lady should be treated.

A father holds his daughter's hand for a short while, but he holds her heart forever.

A little girl giggles when she is denied an ice cream by her mother. She knows daddy will get her some later.

The most admirable thing ever has to be a father protecting his daughter.

One of life’s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn’t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing father.

Vincent Carrella

A father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father gives all of himself that is good.

Wade Boggs

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.

Warren Farrell

Fatherhood was about your dad trading in the old glint in his eye - what he loved to do - for the new glint in his eye: his love for you.