2. “Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.” – George W. Bush
3. “Having kids doesn’t make you a father. Raising them does.” – Anonymous
4. “Anyone can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad.” – Anonymous
5. “Fathers, you are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.” – Anita R. Sneed-Carter
6. “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” –
7. “The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.” –
8. “There’s nothing worse than a man that can be everything to everybody else—except a father to their own child.” – Anonymous
9. “If a man cannot be a father to his own child, there is nothing worse than that.” – Anonymous
10. “An absent father needs to realize his child’s needs before it is too late.” – Anonymous
11. “Father plays a crucial role in the upbringing of a child in the society.” – Anonymous
12. “Respect to doing double duty because of men failing to do their part as a dad.” – John Mark Green
13. “A bad father never has a good son.” – Latin Proverb
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14. “Dear absent father from the mother of a daddy-less , I just want to say—thank you and you are welcome!” – Anonymous
15. “Just remember when you are ignoring her, you are teaching her to live without you.” – Anonymous
16. “Your child feels let down and loses hope in you when you leave them.” – Anonymous
17. “A child will always want his or her father to be around.” – Anonymous
18. “As old as she was. She still missed her daddy sometimes.” – Anonymous
19. “A father may turn his back on his child, but a mother’s love endures through all.” – Washington Irving
20. “When your father is absent, you have to believe in yourself.” – Anonymous
21. “However busy a father is, he will find time for his child.” – Anonymous
22. “My father was absent and he was a hero to me.” – Greta Scacchi
23. “Father’s Day is so hard for me.” – Anonymous
24. “I look for you everywhere I go hoping to bump into you but I never see you you’re not there you’re never there.” – Anonymous
25. “A letter to the father who doesn’t know how awesome I am.” – Anonymous
26. “Hey dad, I did it without you.” – Anonymous
27. “The hardest thing you’ll ever do is comfort a crying child when their other parent doesn’t come to see them.” – Anonymous
28. “Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.” – Geoffrey Canada
29. “I remember when I was the twinkle in my daddy’s eyes. Then he left one day without saying goodbye.” – Anonymous
30. “Don’t forgive him. Forgive yourself for believing there is something lacking in you because he wasn’t there.” – Iyanla Vanzant
31. “Daddy’s in the army, there’s a war in Vietnam. Mama kept us going with her sewing and a prayer. It’s hard to be a family when your daddy’s missing.” – Crowell Church
32. “Some kids are able to become independent without the presence of their father.” – Anonymous
33. “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud
34. “Someday you’ll cry for me like I cried for you. Someday you’ll miss me like I missed you. Someday you’ll need me like I needed you. Someday you’ll love me but I won’t love you.” – Anonymous
35. “My dad broke my heart way before any boy had the chance to.” – Anonymous
36. “No, I will not beg or bribe anyone to be involved in my children’s lives. If you don’t come around, it sucks to be you.” – Anonymous
37. “One day, you’ll be alone and regret not being there. You’ll regret the birthdays and holidays missed. You’ll regret not watching her grow up and being in her life you’ll regret everything and by then, it will be too late.” – Anonymous
38. “There should be an anti father’s day. A bad dad’s day. That way I could truly say, ‘You are the best.’” – Anonymous
39. “I decided to put as much effort into contacting you as you do with me—that’s why we don’t talk anymore.” – Anonymous
40. “If she could put the hollow ache that haunts her into words, she would tell him, ‘I miss the father you never were.’” – John Mark Green
41. “So you lied about what you did, how you felt, who you were, and basically pretended to be a fake person who didn’t exist, but you’re calling me ‘crazy.’ Okay.” – Anonymous
42. “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.” – Anonymous
43. “Real dads support their children without the law the telling them they have to!” – Anonymous
44. “Do not blame your own problem on your children.” – Anonymous
45. “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson
46. “Being a father but not being there for your children is a sin.” – Anonymous
47. “It is much easier to become a father than to be one.” – Kent Nerburn
48. “A father should know his responsibilities to his child.” – Anonymous
49. “You have to raise your kids, then you can be a real father.” – Anonymous
50. “If a guy has children and he has nothing to do with them, he is a douche.” – Anonymous
51. “Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.” – Carew Papritz
52. “My father didn’t do anything unusual. He only did what dads are supposed to do: be there.” – Max Lucado
53. “There would be fewer absent fathers if straight men were turned on only by women with whom they would not mind having children.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
54. “My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else and found it in a . He just happened to be an alcoholic.” – Jim Hamilton
55. “You know, if fathers just did what they’re supposed to do, half of the junk that we face in the streets wouldn’t exist.” – Nathan Hayes
56. “I come from the school of thought where a dad’s absence is something to be counted on. Now I see all the men with camouflage diaper bags and babies hanging from their chests like little ship figureheads.” – Kaui Hart Hemmings
57. “I didn’t have a father growing up, and I was raised with all women, and I didn’t really understand men. I thought they were like women, right?” – Rene Russo
58. “One of the saddest things in this world is to see a child grow up hating one of their because they only got one side of the story.” – Anonymous
59. “No matter how old you get. The hole in your heart created by your father’s absence still aches. Especially on Father’s day.” – Anonymous
60. “He didn’t want to be an absentee father. He didn’t want to be like his own father, who thought being a provider was his only obligation to his family.” – Maya Banks
61. “When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.” – Robert Bly
62. “My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.” – Alejandro Jodorowsky
63. “If there’s no relationship with a father who’s absent, nobody talks about it.” – Charles B. Rangel
64. “I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.” – Gloria Gaynor
65. “So many of our young women today, they’re growing up without a father, but they’re still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.” – Hill Harper
66. “I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflicts, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.” – Ira Levin
67. “The psychological absence of fathers can be nearly as devastating as a physical absence. When fathers are alive but not a predictable presence actively participating in their daughter’s lives the relationship becomes a permanent maybe.” – Victoria Secunda
68. “Fathers, take note! Children will always remember the man who treated them with love and affection. Don’t be an absent father!” – Anonymous
69. “We know that children who grow up with absent fathers can suffer lasting damage. They are more likely to end up in poverty or drop out of school, become addicted to drugs, have a child out of wedlock, or end up in prison. Fatherlessness is not the only cause of these things, but our nation must recognize it is an important factor.” – George W. Bush
70. “A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.” – Anonymous
71. “One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don’t have that role model to teach you how to do things.” – Art Alexakis
72. “When you grew up with an absent father, you grew up dreaming and wanting. But most of all, you grew up way too fast.” – Anonymous
73. “A daughter needs her father more than anything else in the world.” – Anonymous
74. “I’ve only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that’s interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I’ve always been in relationships where there’s separation.” – Patsy Kensit
75. “My father being mostly absent on duty, my mother suffered me to do as much as I pleased.” – John James Audubon
76. “My mother was the influence on me—my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.” – Maira Kalman
77. “My parents were divorced and I didn’t grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.” – Laura Linney
78. “My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer’s started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer’s are the hardest because that person is aware that they’re losing awareness. And I think that that’s why my father started growing more and more quiet.” – Patti Davis
79. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Anonymous
80. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” – Mitch Albom
81. “Say not in grief, ‘He is no more,’ but live in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb
82. “Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.” – Conrad Hall
83. “There is no expiration date on the love between a father and his child.” – Jennifer Williamson
84. “It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” – Anne Sexton
85. “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Auguste Renoir
86. “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us.” –
87. “Whenever I am missing you, I also remember how fortunate I was that you were in my life. I wouldn’t trade those moments for the world.” – Cindy Adkins
88. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” –
89. “The world changes from year to year, our lives from day to day, but the love and memory of you, shall never pass away.” – Anonymous
90. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Gandhi
91. “The last thing my father told me was, ‘On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don’t let me down.’ I take it very seriously.” – Ziggy Marley
92. “My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband, and friend.” –
93. “If there is any immortality to be had among us human beings, it is certainly only in the love that we leave behind. Fathers like mine don’t ever die.” – Leo Buscaglia
94. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” – Jim Valvano
95. “The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.” – Jean-Paul Richter
96. “My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence Budington Kelland
97. “To her, the name of father was another name for love.” – Fanny Fern
98. “What I learned most from my father wasn’t anything he said; it was just the way he behaved.” – Jeff Bridges
99. “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.” –
100. “Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.” – Pam Brown
101. “Without you, there would be no me. I am everything reflected in your eyes. I am everything approved by your smile. I am everything born of your guidance. I am me only because of you.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
102. “A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.” – Anonymous
103. “Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero.” – Anonymous
104. “Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.” – Anonymous
105. “More than 72% of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.” – Don Lemon
106. “Only 20% of fathers who don’t live in the same house as their children are ‘actively’ involved.” – Anonymous
107. “Growing up, I didn’t know about families who were missing a father, because there weren’t any in our neighborhood. Today over a third of American children are born into single-parent homes. Is this all men’s doing?” – Timothy J. Russert
108. “A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.” – Herbert Beerbohm
109. “Frequently, I go to conferences and listen to speakers decry the absent father as somehow a new phenomenon. Though their recriminations against absent or emotionally distant fathers are generally meant to help society, at the same time they are built on a lie that evolution disproves generation after generation. Fathers have often gone to war or the long hunt on the Savannah, or to work in another village or city. But only in the last decade or so have manhood and fathering been trashed completely.” – Michael Gurian
110. “Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child’s life – the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you’ll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, , Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.” – Jeff Greenfield
