To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
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.
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.
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.
There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.
The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
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.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
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.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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.
It was my father who taught me to value myself.
Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.
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