Here are some great father’s day messages from famous daughters. Learn what women have to say about their fathers and what makes them so special.
“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
“Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.”
John Mayor
“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.”
Garrison Keillor
“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”
Gloria Naylor
“When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, “She’s more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.”
Helen Hayes
“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
Enid Bagnold
“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
“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
“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 it took such months to get.”
Phyllis McGinley
“I like being what the girls call MOD—”my other Dad.” What I’ve learned in the past year is that every kid is different. But as long as you love them and never forget that love, then you have the key. I think it’s all about just being there and loving them because kids feel that every single day.”
Ashton Kutcher on being a stepparent
“People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.”
Carroll O’Connor
“It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.”
Alice Walker
“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.”
Margaret Atwood
“To her the name of father was another name for love.”
Fanny Fern
“Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
Anne Geddes
“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
Euripides
“I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.”
Margaret Thatcher
“It’s only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home — it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.”
Margaret Truman
“I thank God that I’m a product of my parents, that they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from.”
Shakira
“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton
“And my dad, you’re a great actor but you’re a better father.”
Angelina Jolie