397 Quotes About Fathers

Dads are just men who have babies but I know he loved me because I felt it go out of me when he crashed. It was like air or blood or bones or something that made me me and it wasnt there any more and I had only half of it now and I didn't know if that was enough.

I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn’t or hasn’t or wouldn’t or wasn’t.

He had always worked for his father, in the family firm, but after his father's reaction to the house Pavel had decided not to do that anymore.'All my life,' he said, 'he criticise. He criticise my work, my idea, he say he don't like the way I talk – even he criticise my wife and my children. But when he criticise my house –' Pavel pursed his lips in a smile – 'then I think, okay, is enough.

Of course he was there, a removed audience of my redemption songs from beyond the grave,the way Kafka and his father continued to shadow-box,long after they quit staring at each otherat the dinner table.

He needed me to do what sons do for their fathers: bear witness that they’re substantial, that they’re not hollow, not ringing absences. That they count for something when little else seems to.

One had to reach twenty-six to understand even in part the father one had.

What happens to the mind after bereavement makes no sense until later... what the mind does after losing one's father isn't just to pick new fathers from the world, but pick new selves to love them with.

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.

Some simpleton with pimples in his voice wants to speak to Ernestine," he grumbled to Mother when he answered the phone.