71 Quotes About Dads

Accept the fact that girls squeal when they're happy or confused or excited or scared or because they just saw a certain boy in line.

The elderly gentleman sitting across the table from me didn't run away from home, as Sam calls it, because he has dementia. He left because he's looking for a reason to live. Just like me.

A dad is a powerful force that guides the path of the universe as he imparts the strength of his love to his children and family.

Confident women are raised by loving dads.

No one ever thinks about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves.

Just the thought of Dad crying made me cry too

Listen, sweetheart. Don't be a hero. [...] If they actually go through with this hare-brained notion and send you into the fighting, there will come a time when you'll have a choice between staying in your trench and crawling out of it to save a buddy. Or maybe you'll have had enough of getting shelled and decide you just have to run out there and shoot someone. That's what I mean. When that moment comes, you stay down. You keep your head down. You hug the ground.

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.

Omar went to the funeral, but watched from afar. So distant that his brother, who hadn’t even come, seemed closer to his father’s final departure. Yaqub ordered a wreath to be delivered, along with an epitaph. “Fond memories of my father, who even from a distance, was always present.