Father Daughter Love Quotes

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

Bruce Barton

Mom, Mother Daughter, Memories

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Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

John Walter Bratton

Daughter, Dad, Hero

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It was my father who taught me to value myself.

Dawn French

Father, Taught, Being A Dad

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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

Birthday, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

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Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Birthday, Thank You, Mother Daughter

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

Fanny Fern

Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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Never love anything that can't love you back.

Bruce Williams

Love, Fathers Day, Teenage

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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

Daughter, Fathers Day, Running

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore Hesburgh

Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

Life, Fathers Day, Children

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

Euripides

Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

Death, Daughter, Fathers Day

"A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

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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

Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Daughter, Honesty, Lilies

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

John Walter Bratton

Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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

Sigmund Freud

Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

Maureen Reagan

Daughter, Dad, Father

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

Enid Bagnold

Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Baby

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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

Running, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

John Gregory Brown (2001). “Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert

Relationship, Daughter, Fathers Day

George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168

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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

Daughter, Mother, Father

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

Imelda Marcos

Girl, Daughter, Fathers Day

TIME magazine, November 11, 1996.

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It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Pope John XXIII

Fathers Day, Children, Dad

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

Erika Cosby

Family, Fathers Day, Dad

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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.

Margaret Truman Daniel

Daughter, Fathers Day, Growing Up

"On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.

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