2,493 Quotes About Father

Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.

Every parent is an artist, for the bared canvas of a newborn’s soul begs for the artist’s touch. And because this is so, a parent must prepare the palette with the utmost care, choose the brushes with poised caution, and mindfully attend to every brushstroke regardless of how slight. And such caution is utterly imperative for the emerging rendering will be both a legacy borne of the parent, and a life lived by the child.

Some men do not know the father of 'their' children.

I guess that’s the soft spot for orphans, eh? We’re so hungry for a father that we go blind.

If you want to know what God thinks about any situation in the world, think like a parent.

you were born for you.you were wanted by you.you came for you.you are here for you.your existence is yours.yes.you will want him. (and on odd and warm nights he will think of you and hold himself tighter.)but. what you do not get. from him.does not make you less.does not make you unwanted.(trust thatall you did not receive. all you need. will come to you. in time.the universe is infinite.’)

On the way home my father said tiredly he hoped some day I'd realize it was necessary to live with people. I didn't understand him. He said a lot of other things that made me feel sorry for him, because he just couldn't stand up to a situation.

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.

She has no memories of her mother but imagines her as white, a soundless brilliance. Her father radiates a thousand colors, opal, strawberry red, deep russet, wild green; a smell like oil and metal, the feel of a lock tumbler sliding home, the sound of his key rings chiming as he walks.