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....

It was Freud’s ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he gained the trust and confidence of many women, who revealed their troubles to...

I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he’d ever done. His greatest sin. I wanted to ask him if there was any reason...

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.

Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can’t find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn off the television to play with your child? It has to happen every...

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, “My father died, my father died.” My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop,...

That was when the world wasn’t so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.

Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers.

I am so proud of my father; he is the biggest example of success and courage I have ever seen in my life. He is the emperor of my kingdom. Of course, my father IS...

We are not called to fight the battles of our fathers with a blind faith. We are called to examine their wars, and moreover, to discern whether their actions were sinful or just. Furthermore, we...

…[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, ‘Honey, you’re so beautiful it doesn’t matter what you wear.’ I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving...

Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.

feminine” just because they have their own likes and opinions on things? Things that really don’t matter?

DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)

Well, it doesn’t look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about.””Don’t sell yourself short. You’re more Masterpiece Theatre.

Dave put a lot of thought into picking out the books his dad would like least.

And if you are a mom who has watched your child’s father leave, my heart goes out to you. I also pray that you had no part in it. I pray that you didn’t make...

Reading Aloud to My Father I chose the book haphazardfrom the shelf, but with Nabokov’s firstsentence I knew it wasn’t the thingto read to a dying man:The cradle rocks above an abyss, it began,and common...

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating…too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you.

His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isn’t he needed at home?

I remember his eyes. They are just like mine. Every time I look in the mirror I see him. I try not to look at my self too much.

Sir Arthur grimaced. He hated violence – perhaps his father ingrained that into him. But he still fought, for principle and for father’s legacy. Now that legacy meant the protection of defenseless women. There were...

Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His...

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father’s head. Sansa would never make that...

My father was always getting excited about something. It’s genetically inside me somewhere.

The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.

Dads. Do you not realize that your child needs to feel your skin on his? Do you not realize the incredible and powerful bond that skin on skin contact with your daughter will give you?...

There are no dots in Tee’sOr cross in eye’sThere is no connect in child neglect

And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty. . . . Students’ perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.