I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
Jesse Jackson also said he thought Barack Obama was talking down to black people by lecturing them on things like fatherhood and being a responsible husband. Jesse thought it was insulting, not only to him, but to his former mistress and their love child.
I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.
That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.
At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.
You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it. '. . . They just keep coming with more questions - why, why, why? - until you don't even know who the fk you are anymore at the end of the conversation. It's an insane deconstruction.
Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it. . . All about him was safe.
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.
What do I owe my father? Everything!