Dad Quotes

This tip brought to you by our Dad Guru John Valadez on Jun 26, 2009

Yesterday I posted my top ten Dad movies and today I’m rolling out my top ten Dad quotes. They are in no particular order, simply because, they have different meanings for different times in my life. When you read through them you’ll know what I referencing. If you have certain Dad quotes you would like to share or just want to leave a comment, then please do.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

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, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.” –Confucius

“It is a wise father who knows his own child.” -William Shakespeare

“Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One’s enough.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not attention that the child is seeking but love.” -Sigmund Freud

“If there is anything we wish to change in our children, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” -Carl G. Jung

“It takes a village to raise a child.” -African proverb

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." -- Unknown