397 Quotes About Fathers

I began to see that he was flawed. We are all flawed, but it is a powerful moment when you realize that about your parents. Still, I loved him no less for it. I know I have flaws, and my children are free to realize this and make their own corrections.

*marissa tries to get her single, working mother's attention by suggesting something outrageous, to which mom replies:*'You're a smart girl. Use your head and avoid any guy who reminds you of your father.

I used to scream, “Daddy!” and hug him when he came home,Until one day I got scared hugging a father I didn’t know.Who is daddy except for that one man in my house at nightTo eat dinner, sleep, and go away again?

A gift was what another person thought of you, and over the years he'd come to understand, by consensus, that his children saw him as someone who wore a tie to work, used power tools, played golf and drank scotch, which, while all true, seemed a superficial view of him. And yet when asked directly, he couldn't say what he wanted. Nothing.

Was Father getting sadder, or was she just getting old enough to see it?

Biology does not make a man a father--nor a woman a mother. We are what we do.

Fathers - half of anyone's life seemed to be about who fathered them.

May we as father’s pray that God would transform the men that we are in order to heal the wounds that we have caused. And might we kneel before this God every day so that the transformation never stops, but the wounding does.

Many fathers believe the lie that they play a second-class role to the mother. If you are a father, I want to remind you that your children want and need you. You are critical to their well-being and success.