If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself. . . Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.
When my kids were younger, I used to avoid them. I used to sit on the toilet 'til my legs fell asleep. You want to know why your father spends so long in the toilet? Because he's not sure he wants to be a father.
People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.
Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.
If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The only Father's Day tradition in my family is the annual conversation he and I have where I say, 'Hey, Dad, what do you want for Father's Day this year?' and he says, 'Nothing. ' Then I ask my mom what I should get him and she says, 'He likes sandalwood soap, dangly jewelry and Chanel No. 5 perfume. '
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts. '
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.
To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he'd removed the iron sliver I thought I'd die from. I can't remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.