2,493 Quotes About Father

Sons aspire to either become their father or vie to be his exact opposite.

But I didn't need to see him because he was there, he would always be there; maybe what Druscilla meant by his dream was not something which he possessed but something which he had bequeathed us which we could never forget, which would even assume the corporeal shape of him whenever any of us, black or white, closed our eyes.

God's father heart is open to all who would come. and to all who would have an open heart.~Cam Richmond~

I'm heading home, Mother. Please get Father off my back and out of my life for a day or so if you don't mind. I do have family matters to take care of now.

Although my father was raised in the church, he wouldn't have prayed to God to spare him. He wouldn't have looked for alternative treatments or a guru or some faulty gene to blame. In my family, we have a long-standing habit of blocking out bad news, of trying to forget about it almost the moment it arrives.

He didn’t want to be an absentee father. He didn’t want to be like his own father, who thought being a provider was his only obligation to his family.There was a hell of a lot more to parenthood than providing all the material necessities. Rafael wanted to be there for all the school plays, the soccer games. He wanted to be the one to put money under his kid’s pillow when he lost a tooth and pretend that it was the tooth fairy.He wanted to be a father. The best father he could be.

My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really—which meant I guess that he was still living, too.

The way people talked about fathers could almost make you glad not to have one.

Sons are justifiably critical of their fathers because their crucial judgments will reflect on type of husband and fathers that they aspire to become.