As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children’s lives.

As a father, we need to actively listen.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes….

He’s an artist in London. We don’t see him much.”Tom gave him one of his quick, considering glances and asked, “Doesn’t he live with you?””No,” said Indigo, finally saying out loud what he had known...

Por qué rayos me siento tan triste cuando papá hace cosas por mi bien?

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on...

Both man and woman have their own parts to play in bringing faith to the next generation, and the woman’s role is particularly important. How can we ever think that the female sex is inferior...

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the...

Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her–and you. … And like him, perhaps I send you back, knowing—as he knew of me–that he will protect you...

There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry.

America used to live by the motto “Father Knows Best.” Now we’re lucky if “Father Knows He Has Children.” We’ve become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

Do whatever you must do to protect your children and wife.

It’s time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It’s time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It’s time we give our kids a fighting chance.

The ToysMy little Son, who look’d from thoughtful eyes And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey’d, I struck him, and dismiss’d With hard words and unkiss’d,—His Mother,...

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

My father couldn’t warm my frozen hands.

It’s nice to meet you, officially.

but you insult all these actions in which you do not honour arête. Eating? Eat as if it was your last meal. Prepare the food as if there were no more food! Sacrifices to the...

Odia su violencia, pero nunca lo odies a él.

Fathers…Rise at dawn.Stand up strong.Fix and build.Plow the field.Carry the weight.Work ’til late.Encourage our dreams.Provide the means.Fight with might.Defend what’s right.Protect the home.Refuse to roam.Forge the way.Take time to play.Spoil our moms.Keep homelife calm.And all...

They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have been interested in her just because of that, and curious, but their common...

The monsters are gone.””Really?” Doubtful.”I killed the monsters. That’s what fathers do.

Sometimes we wait too long for the forgiveness of our fathers.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father,” she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don’t you think?

We want to make sure people are aware of the sacrifices that our fathers made and to keep that tradition alive.

He says that we must protect our families no matter what. No matter what we got to do to protect them.

Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday.

Thus posed, the problem of unbrotherliness can oppose socialism, which uses and abuses the word bortherhood while rejecting fatherhood. Socialism has no opponent. Religions, with their transcendental content, being “not of this world”, with the...

Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.

Then all the winds of Heaven ran to join hands and bend a shoulder, to bring down to me the sound of a noble hymn that was heavy with the perfume of Time That Has...

Maybe not. But maybe that’s how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father.

Sometimes I’d see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never...

Weston: Look at my outlook. You don’t envy it, right?Wesley: No.Weston: That’s because it’s full of poison. Infected. And you recognize poison, right? You recognize it when you see it?Wesley: Yes.Weston: Yes, you do. I...

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn’t even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

The conception of marriage that he formed as a young person and envisioned as an adult has been marred by circumstances that he believes could have been overcome without divorce. Yet, he still believes in...

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”;

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up...

… Genesis 18 calls fathers to direct their children to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Being a parent means working in God’s behalf to provide direction for...

Papas should be loving their children so much that they cry when they gone. That’s what papas is supposed to do.

Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us living something else? Do we not realize how little we encourage our children to...

But he didn’t have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn’t it?

This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.

To say that I wished I wasn’t there would be a ludicrous understatement, but I’d only ever had the illusion of choice: We have to do this, Hank had said. It’s for Ellis. To refuse...

A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.

The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family.

I love” is a door girls slam in their fathers’ faces.

It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in the yard Pa was sorting, counting, the empty bottles he would sell back: the bottles...

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have [to] bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop....