Fatherly Affection Quotes

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Hours after I gave birth to my first child, my husband cradled all five pounds of our boy and said, gently, 'Hi, Sweetpea.' Not 'Buddy' or 'Little Man.' Sweetpea. The word filled me with unanticipated comfort.

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

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.

I never knew my father, which explains the Clint thing. He called himself Daddy... I loved it then, because it filled a great void.

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

Big Mike Meyer was my real dad as far as I was concerned.

Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,/A secret that my daddy said was just between us.”/He said, “Daddies don't just love their children every now and then./It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen.

I thought my father had forgotten about me. But I realised that he missed me as much as I missed him.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

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

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

Having lost my own father at such a young age, I have a soft spot for dads in general, but especially for Guy Glanville. He is a really good man inside who loves his family but may not always be capable of showing that.

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.

My very first memory of being alive is being tossed in the air by my father and laughing and knowing, really knowing, that his was absolute joy.

Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his father. "I could not." For he is Peter Augustus Duchene, and he will always return to me. Again and again, Peter's father threw him up in the air. Again and again, Peter felt himself suspended in nothingness for a moment, just a moment, and then he was pulled back, returned to the sweetness of the earth and the warmth of his father's waiting arms. "See?" said his father to his mother. "Do you see how he always comes back to me?

I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.