1. A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.-Frank A. Clark
2. It’s an ongoing joy being a dad.-Liam Neeson
3. Parents are the centre of a person’s solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most, so his absence was bound to leave a deep and lasting void.-Justin Trudeau
4. But there’s no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.-Tony Dungy
5. That is the thankless position of the father in the family – the provider for all, and the enemy of all.-August Strindberg
6. Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.-Author Unknown
7. Be a dad. Don’t be “Mom’s Assistant”…. Be a man…. 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. Spend time with your kids…. It won’t take away your manhood, it will give it to you.-Louis C.K.
8. Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly clear when my daughter communicates with me in the same ways that I communicate with her. I can really tell where and when I went wrong.-Harold Perrineau
9. Why does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what a male is all about. It’s the first man in her life–the first man she loves, the first male she tries to please, the first man who says no to her, the first man to discipline her. In effect, he sets her up for success or failure with the opposite sex. Not only that, but she takes cues from how Dad treats Mom as she grows up about what to expect as a woman who is in a relationship with a man. So Dad sets up his daughter’s marriage relationship too.-Kevin Leman
10. The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows.-Richelle E. Goodrich
11. Dads had favourite armchairs in which they sat like starship captains, issuing orders and receiving cups of tea and shouting at the news without fear of contradiction.-David Nicholls
12. When you’re a dad, there’s no one above you. If I don’t do something that has to be done, who is going to do it?-Jonathan Safran Foer
13. If you love your dad, it’s tough when he dies. If you don’t like your dad, it’s tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn’t get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.-Jimmy Iovine
14. A father is available to help his daughter balance both her love and her anger toward her mother, to moderate the inevitable emotional extremes in the intense mother-daughter equation. With Daddy’s steadying influence daughters can learn to be comfortable with healthy anger, rather than feeling that they must be eternal good girls who must at all costs conceal it.-Victoria Secunda
15. A dad stands tallest when he kneels to pray with his children.-Rick Warren
16. Dad – a son’s first hero, a daughter’s first love.-John Walter Bratton
17. Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.-Conan O’Brien
18. Dad told me to stop running in circles, I couldn’t, so he nailed down my other foot!-Rodney Dangerfield
19. Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.-Margaret Mead
20. All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work–and therefore as dads.-Warren Farrell
21. A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.-Euripides
22. You can’t be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad – there’s something in the middle of them, and that’s really what you are and that’s going to make you the best dad – not when you try to be one or the other.-Gerard Way
23. There should be a children’s song: ‘If you’re happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep’.-Jim Gaffigan
24. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.-Lydia M. Child
25. One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.-Source Unknown
26. The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.-George Best
27. Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.-Arne Duncan
28. A dad might give a coupon to drop whatever he’s doing and play a game, or to ditch work once in the next 12 months and do whatever the kid wants to do, things like that don’t cost anything, and are often incredibly memorable.-Ron Lieber