Father Daughter Quotes

Although, for a father there is no difference between a daughter and a son, still there exists something that makes the relation between a father and his daughter very special. So many men and women had tried to imprison the essence of this relationship in words and come up with some very remarkable father daughter quotes and sayings. A father knows that his mirror image i.e., son can, somehow, survive in the harsh world that exists on the other side of the doorstep. Father, knows through his personal experience, what is waiting for his son. However, he cannot fathom and understand, being a man, how his little daughter is going to fare and face the realities of life. This makes him insecure and this feeling overshadows his relationship with the daughter. It makes him protective towards his daughter. For him, she never grows up and is always, the small girl who depended on him to fix a broken hand or a leg of her doll and fought with her brother to sit on his prized lap. The following are few of these quotes which may brighten the day for you.

Famous Quotes

A father is someone that
holds your hand at the fair
makes sure you do what your mother says
holds back your hair when you are sick
brushes that hair when it is tangled because mother is too busy
lets you eat ice cream for breakfast
but only when mother is away
he walks you down the aisle
and tells you everything is gonna be Ok!
~ Anonymous

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.
~ Garrison Keillor

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
~ Jean de La Fontaine

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
~ Marcelene Cox

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
~ Margaret Courtney

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.
~ Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eyes

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a democrat.
~ Robert Frost

My son and daughter tell me where they are in very different ways. I know where my son is because I hear him. I know where my daughter is because she tells me.
~ Anonymous

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
~ Enid Bagnold

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

He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures..., but he was never in them.
~ Erma Bombeck

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.
~ Tucker Carlson

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
~ Johnny Depp

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."
~ Natasha Josefowitz

People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.
~ Carroll O'Connor

A son is a son till he gets a wife; a daughter is a daughter for the rest of her life.
~ Unknown

The greatest gift I ever had Come from God, and I call him Dad!
~ Anonymous

"Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes."
~ Gloria Naylor

"I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much."
~ Hedy Lamarr

"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."
~ Natasha Josefowitz

"I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's 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 Thatcher

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
~ Margaret Courtney

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.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett

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.
~ Anonymous

DAD,
When I was born,
You were there to catch me when I fall, whenever and wherever.
When I said my first words,
You were there for me,
to teach me the whole dictionary if need be.
When I took my first steps,
You were there to encourage me on.
When I had my first day at school,
you were there to give me advice and help me with my homework.
I still haven't finished school,
or walked down the aisle, or had my first child.
But I know you will be there for me through all these times and more, the good and bad.
So I just wrote this to say 'I LOVE YOU DAD!!!'
~ Louisa Mansfield

"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."
~ Dawn French

"There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's 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 Gregory Brown

"People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad."
~ Carroll O'Connor

Funny Quotes

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, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."
~ Helen Hayes

Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!!
~ Philip Whitmore Snr.

"A father is a banker provided by nature."
~ French Proverb

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

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."
~ Phyllis Mcginley

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.
~ John Sinor

A daughter is a treasure - and a cause of sleeplessness.
~ Ben Sirach

One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.
~ George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

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

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
~ Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.
~ Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968

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

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

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.
~ Fathers Day Quote by: Stanley T. Banks in the movie 'Father of the Bride'

When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.
~ Fathers Day Quote by: Frederick Buechner, 'Whistling in the Dark'

"Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. 'Do you believe there is a devil?' asked one. 'No,' said the other promptly. It's like Santa Claus: it is your father."
~ Edward F. Murphy

Inspirational Quotes

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
~ Sigmund Freud

A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.
~ Author Unknown

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
~ Virginia Satir

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
~ Joseph Addison

Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest.
~ Chuck Swindoll

A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.
~ Author Unknown

A daughter is a gift of love.
~ Author Unknown

A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.
~ Author Unknown

What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar confidently in her own sky, whatever that may be.
~ Helen Claes

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.
~ Queen Victoria of England

It is said that a father is strict with his son and hardly tolerates his faults and shortcoming. However, his daughter can get away with a murder. Well, it is nothing to be sorry about. It happens in every household, in every country, on every continent and most probably on every earth present in this and every other universes. A father daughter relationship is too unique to be felt and expressed in any way other than the quotes. It is a great loss that we cannot read or know about the quotes from these faraway places. However, I am sure that these would not be too different from the ones that are presented above.