Looking for quotes about fathers not being present? We have rounded up a collection of deep absent father quotes, sayings, captions (with images and pictures) which everyone without a dad can relate to.
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A father plays the most important role in the upbringing of his child. He gives support, love, and protects his daughter/son from the adversities of life. The absence of a father from a daughter/son’s life can have deep emotional and physiological effects on their mind. It affects a child’s life and makes it hard. A child needs both his parents to be a complete individual.
Absent Father Quotes And Sayings
- “Hey “dad” I did it without you.”
- “Father’s Day is so hard for me.”
- “A bad father has never a good son.”- Latin Proverb
- “As old as she was..She still missed her daddy sometimes.”
- “A letter to the father who don’t know how awesome I am.”
- “Having kids doesn’t make you a father. Raising them does.”
- “When your father is absent, you have to believe in yourself.”
- “My dad broke my heart way before any boy had the chance to.”
- “Anyone can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
- “A daughter needs her father more than anything else in the world.”
- “It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”- Kent Nerburn
- “An absent father needs to realize his child’s needs before it is too late.”
- “It is a wise father that knows his own child.”- William Shakespeare
- “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”
- “If a guy has children and he has nothing to do with them, he is a douche.”
- “If a man cannot be a father to his own child, there is nothing worse than that.”
- “Real dads support their children without the law the telling them they have to!”
- “A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.”
- “Some kids are able to become independent without the presence of their father.”
- “Just remember when you are ignoring her, you are teaching her to live without you.”
- “Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.”- George W. Bush
- “He was supposed to be the first male love of your life you still search for him everywhere.”
- “The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.”- Benjamin Franklin
- “There should be an anti father’s day. A bad dad’s day. That way I could truly say “you are the best.”
- “I remember when I was the twinkle in my daddy’s eyes. Then he left one day without saying good bye.”
- “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.”- Barbara Johnson
- “A father may turn his back on his child, but a mother’s love endures through all.”- Washington Irving
- “The hardest thing you’ll ever do is comfort a crying child when their other parent doesn’t come see them.”
- “I decided to put as much effort into contacting you as you do with me – that’s why we don’t talk anymore.”
- “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
- “Respect to all moms doing double duty because of men failing to do their part as dad.”- John Mark Green
- “Only twenty two percent of fathers who don’t live in the same house as their children are “actively” involved.”
- “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.”
- “There’s nothing worse than a man that can be everything to everybody else…except a father to their own child.”
- “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.”
- “Dear absent father from the mother of a dadyless daughter..i just want to say ..Thank you and you are welcome!”
- “No matter how old you get. The hole in your heart created by your father’s absence still aches.Especially on father’s day.”
- “When you grew up with an absent father, you grew up dreaming and wanting.. But most of all, you grew up way too fast.”
- “Don’t forgive him. Forgive yourself for believing there is something lacking in you because he wasn’t there.” – Iyanla Vanzant
- “Fathers, take note! Children will always remember the man who treated them with love and affection!Don’t be an absent father!”
- “When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.”- Robert Bly
- “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
- “One of the saddest things in this world, is to see a child grow up hating one of their parents because they only got one side of the story.”
- “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
- “Fathers, your 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
- “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.”
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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.”
- “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
- “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 than it will be too late.”
- “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
- “The psychological absence of fathers can be nearly as devastating as 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
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