“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
George MacDonald
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72 quotes on love, romance and relationships — from the classics to the everyday.
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
“Hussain is from me, and I am from Hussain.”
Prophet Muhammad · hadith, Sunan al-Tirmidhi tradition
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, You're tearing up the grass. We're not raising grass, Dad would reply. We're raising boys.”
Harmon Killebrew
“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 · Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
“A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.”
David Jeremiah
“When I was young, my father told me that my mother would teach me how to love, and he would teach me how to live.”
Common attribution, traditional
“To her, the name of father was another name for love.”
Fanny Fern
“Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.”
Anne Geddes
“The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad.”
Unknown
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“To her, the name of father was another name for love.”
Fanny Fern
“Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.”
Unknown
“Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
Anne Geddes
“The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad.”
Unknown
“He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
