Daddy Quotes - Page 5

• Whenever one of my children says, 'Goodnight, Daddy,' I always think to myself, 'You don't mean that.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Fathers Day, Children, Dad

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Oct 19, 2012

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• For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.

  Alan Valentine

  Loyalty, Fathers Day, Son

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• My father can not finish a sentence. When we were kids he would go, 'Girls the most important thing in life to remember is...' 'Daddy, what is it?' 'What's what, honey?' 'The most important thing in life to remember.' 'Oh, what's that?'

  Caroline Rhea

  Girl, Fathers Day, Kids

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• Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational Life, Grind

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• Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile in fifty strides! Imagine looking to either side through eyes set not in your head but in a... hump in your back! Imagine your knees, when you walked, working a dozen feet or more above your head.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Eye, Garden, Feet

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• Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter.

  John Green

  Night, Thinking, Trying

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.102, Penguin

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• Sorry to bother you,” Bella said over the wailing. “But she wants her daddy.

  J.R. Ward

  Sorry, Zsadist, Want

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Father Mine: Zsadist and Bella's Story: A Black Dagger Brotherhood Novella”, p.93, Penguin

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• My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Inspirational, Morning, Sorry

  "No Country for Old Men". Book by Cormac McCarthy, July 19, 2005.

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• That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream "Daddy Issues.

  Richard Kadrey

  Issues, Machines, Scream

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• Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts by making us throw the little fish back into the river. We even tell the reader the kind of car we were driving, the year and the model, to give the impression that it’s all true. It’s because we think of ourselves as journalists of a kind. Like them, we’ll go anywhere for a story. Don’t believe a word of it. As any poet can tell you, one often sees better with eyes closed than with eyes wide open.

  Charles Simic

  Believe, Eye, Writing

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• America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

  Stephen Colbert

  Baby, Children, Father

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• Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much.

  Cassandra Clare

  Vampire, Facts Of Life, Made

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1392, Simon and Schuster

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• Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a - You think It's a happy beat? Listen to it closely: Ain't you heard something underneath like a - What did I say? Sure, I'm happy! Take it away! Dream Boogie Hey, pop! Re-bop! Mop! Y-e-a-h!

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Morning, Thinking

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1951-1967”, p.27, University of Missouri Press

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• I told her about the man, not my daddy, she said, He was only making you into a real girl. I didn’t understand. But I made myself believe her. I was a real girl now. But what was I before?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Real, Believe

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• It's always the mother's fault, ain't it?" she said softly, collecting her coat. "That boy turn out bad cause his mama a drunk, or she a junkie. She let him run wild, she don't teach him right from wrong. She never home when he back from school. Nobody ever say his daddy a drunk, or his daddy not home after school. And nobody ever say they some kids just damned mean.

  Lionel Shriver

  Mother, Running, Home

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• Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?

  Simone Elkeles

  Tango, Horizontal

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• What did I do to make Mommy leave?” “You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.” “Then why?” she’d wailed. “I don’t know,” her daddy had said, and he looked so sad. “It isn’t fair!” “No, it isn’t, baby. Not by a mile. The world’s only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your own little cave, that’s one less fighter on the side of fair.

  Libba Bray

  Baby, Fighting, Caves

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• He said you sparkle like a newborn galaxy and have more attitude than a rich kid with his daddy's Porsche.

  Darynda Jones

  Attitude, Kids, Porsche

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.262, Macmillan

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• Daddy looked at her hard, and right before my eyes, he changed. I watched him inflate again, shake off his own emotions and puff himself up for her. Become her man. Her rock. I smiled. I loved him so much. He'd dragged mom kicking and screaming from grief once before and I knew I could rest easy that he would never let grief steal her from him again. No matter what happened to me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mom, Grief, Eye

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.826, Dell

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• Cole made a hissing sound. "Are you inside yet? God bless America and all her sons. What is taking you so long?" The front door was locked. "Here, talk to Grace" "Mommy isn't going to give a different answer than Daddy," Cole said, but I handed her the phone anyway.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Son, Phones, Doors

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.833, Scholastic Inc.

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• Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we’re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Art, Crazy

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.298, Bantam

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• And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Made, Fine, Seems

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Sorry, Self, Feel Good

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.172, Macmillan

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• Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Tragedy, Bumps, Records

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• It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Creating, Weakness, Isms

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.284, Macmillan

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