397 Quotes About Fathers

Children are the most fearless souls on earth.

I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book of its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done: swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he had wound up with.

But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence.

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

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

He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father.

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

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.