Best Father Quotes

I'm so sorry, Henri," I whisper in his ear. I close my eyes. "I love you. I wouldn't have missed a second of it, either. Not for anything," I whisper. "I'm going to take you back yet. Somehow I am going to get you back to Lorien. We always joked about it but you were my father, the best father I could have ever asked for. I'll never forget you, not for a minute for as long as I live. I love you, Henri. I always did.

What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.

Last year was the best Father's Day ever, 1,000th win for Ford and to have my daughter there for her first victory lane. I'm not sure how to top that, but hopefully something spectacular will happen. Michigan is one of my favorite tracks; it's a big fast place and has lots of room to race. There is always a lot of strategy going on. Fuel mileage and pit stops are very important.

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

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.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.

There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

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.

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're 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 I took such months to get.

Even my going back to school was to inspire young people that it's never too late to education. That's all I can do, and try to be the best father and husband that I can be.

I've got a lot to look forward to. I'm trying to be the best father I can, and that's a pretty important role. Some would say it's more important than stopping pucks.

The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

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 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.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

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

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

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.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn't looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don't see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in movies.

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

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.