Daddy's Girl

Dear Dad, Remember I Loved You First

Oh with all that I've done wrong I must have done something right. 
Katie Mather
August 3, 2016
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
— Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Family, Childhood, Wisdom, Growing Up
“Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.”
— Liesel, The Book Thief
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Happiness, Childhood, Love, Family Love
“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”
— Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Fathers, Dads, heart, Love, Father's Day
“There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.”
— Joni Eareckson Tada, Joni
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fathers, Fatherhood, Child, Childhood, Crying, Love, Family
“Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?”
— Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, father, Childhood, Loss, Growing Up, Love
“A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.”
— Ama H. Vanniarachchy, 30 Sweet, Tear-Jerking Quotes About Fathers & Daughters
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Fathers, fears, Tears, Cares, Protection, Love, strength, Family
“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, 30 Sweet, Tear-Jerking Quotes About Fathers & Daughters
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Fathers, Men, Relationships, Family
“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, 30 Sweet, Tear-Jerking Quotes About Fathers & Daughters
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Fathers, Relationships, Family, Love, Unconditional Love, daughters
“Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing dad.”
— Anonymous, 30 Sweet, Tear-Jerking Quotes About Fathers & Daughters
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Fathers, Relationships, Family, Love, Unconditional Love, daughters
“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.”
— Anonymous, 30 Sweet, Tear-Jerking Quotes About Fathers & Daughters
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Fathers, Relationships, Family, Love, Unconditional Love, daughters
“He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn’t afraid to go into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures…but he was never in them.”
— Erma Bombeck, 30 Sweet, Tear-Jerking Quotes About Fathers & Daughters
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Fathers, Relationships, Family, Love, Unconditional Love, daughters
“The reason why daughters love their Dad the most is…that there is at least one man in the world who will never hurt her.”
— Anonymous, 30 Sweet, Tear-Jerking Quotes About Fathers & Daughters
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Fathers, Relationships, Family, Love, Unconditional Love, daughters
“When my father didn’t have my hand…he had my back.”
— Linda Poindexter, 30 Sweet, Tear-Jerking Quotes About Fathers & Daughters
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Fathers, Relationships, Family, Love, Unconditional Love, daughters
“A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.”
— Carol Coats, Top 10 Inspirational Quotes To Share With Your Dad
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, father, Dad, Love, Children, Growing Up, Family
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.”
— Charles Wadworth, Top 10 Inspirational Quotes To Share With Your Dad
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, father, Dad, Love, Children, Growing Up, Family, Sons
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
— Mark Twain, Top 10 Inspirational Quotes To Share With Your Dad
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, father, Dad, Love, Children, Growing Up, Family, Sons
“Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.”
— Barbara Samuel, The Sleeping Night
Tagged: I Love You Dad, father, Childhood, Child, Sons, Dads, Change
“If you don’t know your father...how can you know yourself?”
— Odysseus, Illium
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Dads, Parenthood, Family, Growing Up
“'I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world!'
'Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better.'
'Impossible...'”
— Mary, Middlemarch
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Relationships, husbands, Family, Love, Unconditional Love
“There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.”
— Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
Tagged: I Love You Dad, father, mother, Love, Parenting, Parenthood, Dads, Teacher, Teaching
“Dads are like chocolate chip cookies; they may have chips or be totally nutty, but they are sweet and make the world a better place, especially for their children.”
— Hilllary Lytle, Ten Best Quotes To Tell Dad "I Love You"
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Dads, Cute Quotes, Childhood, Family, Love
“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.”
— Émile Gaboriau, Ten Best Quotes To Tell Dad "I Love You"
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Dads, Cute Quotes, Childhood, Family, Love
“We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to.”
— Irish Proverb, Ten Best Quotes To Tell Dad "I Love You"
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Dads, Cute Quotes, Childhood, Family, Love
“He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father.”
— Ian McEwan, Atonement
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Childhood, Family, Raising Kids, Dads
“You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.”
— Jerry Seinfeld, 13 Funny Father's Day Quotes | Reader's Digest
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Nostalgia, Dads, Love, Unconditional Love, Family, Growing Up
“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.”
— Dave Attell, 13 Funny Father's Day Quotes | Reader's Digest
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Dads, Growing Up, Superhero, Superman
“And when this dirty world has been cold to you I got two strong arms waitin' to hold you
And when those mean days come along
We'll stand together and we'll take 'em on
So if you need me just call my name

When you need me call my name
'Cause without you my life just isn't the same.”
— Bruce Springsteen, When You Need Me
Tagged: Daddy Daughter Songs
“I've got sunshine on a cloudy day.
When it's cold outside I've got the month of May.

I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl”
— The Temptations, My Girl by the Temptations
Tagged: Daddy Daughter Dance, Daddy Daughter Songs
“Isn't she lovely
Isn't she wonderful
Isn't she precious
Less than one minute old
I never thought through love we'd be
Making one as lovely as she
But isn't she lovely.”
— Stevie Wonder, Isn't She Lovely
Tagged: Daddy Daughter Dance, Daddy Daughter Songs
“I was enough for her not long ago
I was her number one
She told me so
And she still means the world to me
Just so you know
So be careful when you hold my girl
Time changes everything
Life must go on
And I'm not gonna stand in your way

But I loved her first and I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that she'd find you someday
But it's still hard to give her away
I loved her first.”
— Heartland, I Loved Her First
Tagged: Daddy Daughter Dance, Daddy Daughter Songs