Top 213 Dads Quotes & Sayings

The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.

My dad's been one of those dads who loves showing newspaper articles to the neighbors.

My dads music was a great inspiration to me.

All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.

Dads are not a risk to be managed, but a resource to be used for the benefit of the whole family.

One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other.

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!

Moms are as versatile as dads.

The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.

Deep down, I feel 'Doll & Em' is a love letter to our dads, because we adored them.

...make dads the godly leaders [of the family] with the women in submission, raising kids for the glory of God.

I'm as lame as all dads are.

I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

We knew what mums, dads, and children would understand and enjoy without resentment. I don't see the requirement to upset people. You're there to entertain and please.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

I want to be known as the Daniel Day-Lewis of TV dads.

Shared parental leave is good for dads. Looking after their newborn on their own is a unique learning experience.

Family policy is not a zero-sum game: any gain for dads need not come at the expense of mums.

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.

It's important that dads take the opportunity to develop relationships with their children.

Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

Dads are the best.

Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace. The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.

Cursing dads are terrifying, you know? Cursing dads are - I don't know why, but no. It just doesn't seem to me that that would be funny. I mean it might be - you could try it and see. I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

Dads have been increasingly hands-on for quite a while. And yet, we still insist on portraying dads as bumbling idiots.

It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.

Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals.

I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

When new moms and dads can better support their families and give our youngest Americans the healthiest, most loving start to life, we all benefit.

I feel like dads should come more into their feminine side.

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.

There are so many single moms and dads out there, and we are all just trying to pick up the pieces together. It's hard.

Films are deprived of the conventional elderly figures now. They are more into yo moms and dads.

It's only after the first six months that it really becomes fun for dads.

I see a lot of moms and dads frustrated because their kids have their devices at the dinner table and they can't seem to get their attention as much as they used to.

I love the fact that Facebook offers equal leave for moms and dads. Consider that for your company.

Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.

When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.

I think some men like to be hands-on dads. It's up to individuals. We did it the way that suited us.

Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.

Active dads make a positive contribution: they are good for children and they are good for mothers.

Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.

We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own.

I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.

Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life.

I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads.

I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.

Another advantage millennials have over us Gen-Xers are the dads. They're engaged, involved and not afraid to strap on a Baby Bjorn.

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

As a child, I was embarrassed by my dads effusive episodes, but I suppose I got used to living with someone who was intermittently sad.

I like wearing my dads sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.

I was thinking, mothers show their love for their sons so much greater than dads do.

What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents.

In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'

My dads my best mate, and he always will be.

I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn't get close to a baby, let alone change nappies.

Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.

It's important for moms, but also dads, to recognize that they're role models when it comes to their kids' physical health, when it comes to working out, and when it comes to nutrition.