“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton
“I think my mom put it best. She said, ‘Little girls soften their, daddy’s hearts.”
Paul Walker
“My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband, and friend.”
Tiger Woods
“Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.”
Naveen Jain
“Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.”
Conrad Hall
“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.”
– Mark Wahlberg
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
– Mark Twain
“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.”
– Alison Lohman
“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.”
– Wade Boggs
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
“One of the greatest titles in the world is a parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.”
Jim DeMint
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
– William Shakespeare
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
– Pope John XXIII
“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
– Johann Schiller
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
– Charles Wadsworth
“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
– Enid Bagnold
“Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
– Anne Geddes
