Fathers love for daughters
55+ Dad and Daughter Quotes and Sayings
Are you looking for the perfect dad and daughter quotes for your Father’s Day card? Perhaps a special message for his birthday, Christmas, or Valentine’s Day? Or are you looking for a simple reminder of your love to share with him simply because he’s your dad? No matter the occasion, dad and daughter quotes can help make your note extra special. Check out the quotes below for cute, funny, and inspirational messages for a father or daughter. When you’re done, pick the perfect option to add inside a card for any occasion. Want to wow your dad? Make him unique personalized gifts that capture your special relationship with him. Add a monogram, his name, photos, or a heartfelt message to any of our products to make gifts he’ll treasure forever. Don’t miss our Father’s Day gift guide to find all the best gifts for your dad Father’s Day.
When you can’t find the right words to say to express to your unconditional love for dad, rely on our helpful array of quotes to describe what you truly feel inside. Depending on your relationship, you can pick a quote that is as humorous, or sentimental as you like to add into your Father’s Day card or card for another occasion along with your heartwarming message. Regardless of the occasion, be sure to choose a quote that’ll tug on his heart strings and make him feel like the best dad ever.
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- Funny Quotes About Dads And Daughters
- Cute Daddy Daughter Quotes
- Inspirational Quotes For Dads And Daughters
- Dad Quotes From Daughter
- Father Daughter Love Quotes
Funny Quotes About Dads And Daughters
The following quotes are as funny as they are filled with love for the special bond between fathers and daughters. Use these for a Father’s Day card or explore our wide selection of ceramic mugs to give as a thoughtful gift. Personalize his mug with your favorite photos of you and him together along with a quote to match the memory to make him chuckle. Your dad will love getting a laugh on a special day and use his mug every day for his morning coffee or tea and think of you every time he uses it.
- “It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.” – John Sinor
- “If you ever want to torture my dad, tie him up and right in front of him, refold a map incorrectly.” – Cathy Ladman
- “When you’re young, you think your dad is Superman. Then you grow up, and you realize he’s just a regular guy who wears a cape.” – Unknown
- “You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You’re her oracle. You’re her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you’re in a constant state of panic.” – Stanley T. Banks
- “I smile because you’re my father. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.” – Unknown
- “A daughter is a treasure and a cause of sleeplessness.” – Ben Sirach
- “A little girl giggles when she is denied an ice-cream by her mother.
She knows daddy will get her some later.” – Unknown - “Dad, you’ve always been the coolest – like all those times you said ‘yes’ when Mom said ‘no.’” – Unknown
Cute Daddy Daughter Quotes
These Daddy daughter quotes are cute for any age and for any occasion. If you’re looking to deliver a softer, sweeter message to the best dad in the world, the quotes below are just right for you. These daddy/daughter quotes could be included on everything from Father’s Day gifts like desktop plaques or fleece blankets, to wedding programs or wedding introductions right before the dad and daughter dance.
- “Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing dad.” – Unknown
- “Dear Daddy, no matter where I go in life, you’ll always be my number one man.” – Unknown
- “There is this girl who stole my heart and she calls me Daddy.” – Unknown
- “A father holds his daughter’s hand for a short while, but he holds her heart forever.” – Unknown
- “Being a daddy’s girl is like having permanent armor for the rest of your life.
” – Marinela Reka - “One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever gotten came from God. I call him daddy.” – Unknown
- “Dad. He can play like a kid, give advice like a friend, and protect like a bodyguard.” – Unknown
- “Daddy, thanks for being my hero, chauffeur, financial support, listener, life mentor, friend, guardian, and simply being there every time I need a hug.” – Agatha Stephanie Lin
- “No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.” – Michael Ratnadeepak
- “This relationship has something special about it, that makes every father and every daughter in the world speak warmly about it.” – Unknown
- “When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.” – Hugh Jackman
- “Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.” – Gloria Naylor
- “Ordinary father-daughter love had a charge to it that generally was both permitted and indulged. There was just something so beautiful about the big father complementing the tiny girl.
Bigness and tininess together at last—yet the bigness would never hurt the tininess! It respected it. In a world in which big always crushes tiny, you wanted to cry at the beauty of big being kind of and worshipful of and being humbled by tiny. You couldn’t help but think of your own father as you saw your little girl with hers.” – Meg Wolitze
Inspirational Quotes For Dads And Daughters
Few things or people inspire us as much as our fathers. Whether he taught you how to build up your self-confidence throughout the years or made you feel loved on the days you needed a little extra support, the following quotes prove just that. They also make perfect additions to cards and any Father’s Day gifts. Use inspirational quotes to brighten his day and show him how much you care for any special occasion.
- “Fathers, be your daughter’s first love and she’ll never settle for anything less.” – Unknown
- “A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.
” – Unknown - “In the darkest days, when I feel inadequate, unloved and unworthy, I remember whose daughter I am and I straighten my crown.” – Unknown
- “It was my father who taught me to value myself.” – Dawn French
- “A good father will leave his imprint on his daughter for the rest of her life.” – Dr. James Dobson
- “My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.” – Unknown
- “Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.” – John Mayor
- “He was a father. That’s what a father does. Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.” – George Saunders
- “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” – Mother Teresa
- “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
Dad Quotes From Daughter
These quotes make perfect additions to a letter to your Dad. Just make sure to add your own personal touch and write whatever you feel from the heart. You can describe a special moment in your life where you felt thankful your dad was there for you or touch on a valuable lesson he taught you that made you into a stronger individual. These quotes for dad are especially greet in greeting cards, whether you’re looking for a special message for his birthday, Christmas, or another holiday.
- “Some people don’t believe in heroes but they haven’t met my dad.” – Unknown
- “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” – Jim Valvano
- “A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.” – Unknown
- “The love between a father and daughter is forever.” – Unknown
- “When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.
” – Linda Poindexter - “A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remain as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.” – Ama H. Vanniarachchy
- “I’ve made it my business to observe fathers and daughters. And I’ve seen some incredible, beautiful things. Like the little girl who’s not very cute – her teeth are funny, and her hair doesn’t grow right, and she’s got on thick glasses – but her father holds her hand and walks with her like she’s a tiny angel that no one can touch. He gives her the best gift a woman can get in this world: protection. And the little girl learns to trust the man in her life. And all the things that the world expects from women – to be beautiful, to soothe the troubled spirit, heal the sick, care for the dying, send the greeting card, bake the cake – all of those things become the way we pay the father back for protecting us.” – Adriana Trigiani
- “My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him.
He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.” – Bindi Irwin - “I am a princess not because I have a prince, but because my father is a king.” – Unknown
- “You brought me every single toy that I wanted when I was young. I hope I can return the favor when I grow up by achieving every single goal that you always wanted me to. I love you.” – Unknown
- “Nothing makes me feel stronger than knowing that I have a dad who’s got my back. I love you.” – Unknown
- “You have seen me at my worst, yet you think that I am the best. I love you, Dad.” – Unknown
Father Daughter Love Quotes
It’s no secret the love you share with your father. Sometimes, however, it can be difficult to put that love in words. To help you out, we’ve found the following dad and daughter quotes for you below. These are perfect messages for personalized fleece blankets your dad will love to use during his mid day naps on the couch, or even custom hoodies to keep him warm on the days when the weather is cool.
- “A daughter may outgrow your lap but she’ll never outgrow your heart.” – Unknown
- “Dad: a daughter’s first love.” – Unknown
- “When I’m at my best, I am my father’s daughter.” – Unknown
- “No other love in the world is like the love of a father has for his little girl.” – Unknown
- “When my daughter says ‘Daddy I need you!’ I wonder if she has any idea that I need her billion times more.” – Stanley Behrman
- “To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.” – Euripides
- “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
- “It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.” – Dawn French
- “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 - “He sweeps her hair back from her ears and he swings her above his head. He says she is his émerveillement, he says he will never leave her, not in a million years.” – Anthony Doerr
- “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
- “I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.” – Lady Gaga
- “Dad, even a fleeting memory of your loving smile is enough to light up my darkest days. I love you!” – Unknown
- “One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight and demanded that you watch everything they do and listen to everything they say. Those memories will help you through less joyous times when their adoration is replaced by embarrassment or annoyance and they don’t want you to see what they are doing or hear what they are saying.
And yet, you will adore your daughter every day of her life, hoping to be valued again, but realizing how fortunate you were even if you only get what you already got.” – Michael Josephson - “Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. This is my only girl. So I don’t care what it takes to protect her. You can call it what you want to call it. As long as you treat her the same way I treat her, like my princess, I don’t mind.” – Tracy Morgan
- “They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her, a father adores his daughter. Whoever she grows up to be, she is always to him that little girl in pigtails. She makes him feel like Christmas. In exchange, he makes a secret promise not to see the awkwardness of her teenage years, the mistakes she makes or the secrets she keeps.” – Unknown
Additional Dad and Daughter Resources
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61 Best Father & Daughter Quotes
1
Amy Grant
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"When people look inside my life, I want to hear them say
She’s got her father’s eyes
Her father’s eyes
Eyes that find the good in things
When good is not around”
2
John Sinor
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“It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for a father who takes his daughter shopping.
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3
Jim Gaffigan
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"Raising kids may be a thankless job but at least the pay sucks."
4
Imelda Marcos
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"I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love something that can’t love you back."
5
Tina Turner
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"You're simply the best."
6
Antoine Francis Prevost
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"The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature."
7
Loretta Lynn
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"They don't make men like my daddy anymore."
8
Bob Carlisle
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"There's two things I know for sure: She was sent here from heaven and she's daddy's little girl.
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9
Wade Boggs
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"Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me."
10
Tim McGraw
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"Go on, take on this whole world/But to me you know you'll always be/ My little girl."
11
Unknown
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"Some superheroes don't wear capes. They are called Dad."
12
Unknown
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"A father is a son's first hero and a daughter's first love."
13
Richard Bach
Country Living
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
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14
Frank Pittman
Country Living
"Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man."
15
Anthony Doerr
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"He sweeps her hair back from her ears and he swings her above his head. He says she is his émerveillement, he says he will never leave her, not in a million years."
16
Antoine Francois Prevost
Country Living
"The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature."
17
Irish Saying
Country Living
"A son is a son till he gets a wife; a daughter is a daughter for the rest of her life."
18
Ken Norton
Country Living
"Of all the titles I've been privileged to have, 'Dad' has always been the best.
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19
Michael Josephson
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight and demanded that you watch everything they do and listen to everything they say."
20
Sarah Orne Jewett
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways."
21
Stanley T. Banks
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You’re her oracle. You’re her hero."
22
Tracy Morgan
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way.
This is my only girl. So I don’t care what it takes to protect her. You can call it what you want to call it. As long as you treat her the same way I treat her, like my princess, I don’t mind."
23
Terri Guillemets
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"I love my father as the stars—he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart."
24
Mat Johnson
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"A man’s daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world."
25
Unknown
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"A little girl giggles when she is denied an ice cream by her mother. She knows daddy will get her some later."
26
Enid Bagnold
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"A father is always making his baby into a little woman.
And when she is a woman he turns her back again."
27
George Saunders
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"He was a father. That’s what a father does. Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime."
28
Marinela Reka
Design: Eddie Phan
“Being a daddy’s girl is like having a permanent armor for the rest of your life.”
29
Unknown
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"Fathers, be your daughter’s first love and she’ll never settle for anything less."
30
Sigmund Freud
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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31
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remain as a pillar of strength throughout our lives."
32
Guy Lombardo
Design: Eddie Phan
"Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half―especially if he has a teenage daughter."
33
John Gregory Brown
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"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."
34
David Duchovny
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
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35
Bindi Irwin
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun."
36
Unknown
Design: Eddie Phan
"A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against she will judge all men."
37
Agatha Stephanie Lin
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"Daddy, thanks for being my hero, chauffeur, financial support, listener, life mentor, friend, guardian and simply being there every time I need a hug."
38
Clarence Budington Kelland
Design: Eddie Phan
“My father didn’t tell me how to live.
He lived, and let me watch him do it.”
39
Jim Valvano
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."
40
Lady Gaga
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad."
41
Hugh Jackman
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away."
42
Dawn French
Design: Eddie Phan
“It was my father who taught me to value myself."
43
Stanley Behrman
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"When my daughter says 'Daddy, I need you!' I wonder if she has any idea that I need her billion times more.
"
44
Michael Ratnadeepak
Design: Eddie Phan
“No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.”
45
Ben Sirach
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"A daughter is a treasure and a cause of sleeplessness."
46
Fanny Fern
Design: Eddie Phan
“To her, the name of father was another name for love.”
47
Harper Lee
Design: Eddie Phan
“She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father."
48
Marisol Santiago
Design: Eddie Phan
“A girl’s first true love is her father.
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49
Paul Walker
Design: Eddie Phan
“I think my mom put it best. Little girls soften their daddy’s hearts.”
50
Unknown
Design: Eddie Phan
“A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.”
51
Elaine S. Dalton
Design: Eddie Phan
"The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.”
52
Gloria Naylor
Design: Eddie Phan
“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”
53
Alison Lohman
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us.
One of those men is my father."
54
Euripides
Design: Eddie Phan
“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
55
Dr. James Dobson
Design: Rebekah Lowin
"A good father will leave his imprint on his daughter for the rest of her life."
56
Hedy Lamar
Design: Eddie Phan
“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.”
57
Bindi Irwin
Design: Eddie Phan
“Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero."
58
Joseph Addison
Design: Eddie Phan
“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.
”
59
John Mayer
Design: Eddie Phan
“On behalf of every man looking out for every girl, you are the God and weight of her world.”
60
Linda Poindexter
Design: Eddie Phan
“When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back."
61
Tim McGraw
Design: Eddie Phan
“You've had me wrapped around your finger since the day you were born.”
Fathers love daughters more than sons?
Fathers treat their daughters more attentively than their sons. Behavioral Neuroscience is a journal of the American Psychological Association.
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Publication date: 05/26/2017
Fathers treat their daughters more attentively than their sons.
This is written by the journal of the American Psychological Association Behavioral Neuroscience.
Fathers of babies behave differently depending on the gender of the baby. They respond to the needs of girls much faster and more often than to the requests of boys. This was confirmed by brain scans and the study of records of communication between fathers and children. Also, the fathers of little girls are more open, more often talking with them about their feelings, while with boys they prefer to play rude games and speak in a "leader's" tone. Scientists have not yet established whether it depends on genetics or social attitudes. nine0005
Researchers abandoned lab tests and carried out tests in the real world. The fathers of 30 girls and 22 boys from Atlanta agreed to wear small laptops for one work day and one day off. The gadget randomly turned on the recording for 50 seconds approximately every 9 minutes.
“Surprisingly, the fathers seemed to forget they were recording at all,” says study lead author Professor Jennifer Moscaro of Emory University.
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Fathers were asked to leave the device turned on in the child's room at night in order to understand how communication takes place at this time of day. They were also shown photos of different children, their own and others, and at the same time they scanned the brain using MRI. Scans showed that the most emotional reaction was the reaction of the girls' fathers when they were shown a photo of their smiling daughter. The reaction of the boys' fathers to the joyful photos of their sons was more restrained. Dads and girls and boys reacted the same way to children's sadness. nine0005
The study was carried out to clarify the role of fathers in parenting and their impact on the later life of their children. Large-scale conclusions do not follow from it, but, according to scientists, they can give fathers some recommendations based on the data obtained. For example, says Professor Moscaro, dads of boys should try to be more open emotionally with their sons, just like dads of girls do.
This helps the child understand what empathy is and learn how to express their feelings. nine0005
“It must be admitted that, with all their efforts, fathers are less likely to respond to their sons' emotional requests,” says the professor.
Previous studies have already shown that the inability to recognize and cope with one's emotions can lead to depression, antisocial behavior, problems in the family in the future. Also, psychologists do not recommend giving up violent "boyish" games with girls - this also helps to regulate emotions.
“Most men try to be good fathers, but, nevertheless, their behavior is sometimes biased and very dependent on the sex of the child,” sums up Moscaro. nine0005
Do fathers love their daughters more than their sons?
fathers love more …
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Tanko
Depending on what is considered love.
If total control, restrictions due to type safety and type strictness for the sake of good, then yes.
If staying on the same wavelength, providing freedom and forgiving pranks (kid zhezh), then no.
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Guest
Sorry. You are unlucky with your father.
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#7
Guest
Yes, that's a fact. Fathers want sons, but they love daughters. Families where a boy was born break up more often than where a daughter was born. Fathers love sons only late, born after 40 years of the father.
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Guest
You drive! The man loves his son and loves his daughter.
