Fathers Quotes - The best gift for a future mother is a present father

Fathers Quotes - The best gift for a future mother is a present father

“...often he did not have the energy to think, but when he did, he thought of what made a death a good death, and his sense was that a good death would be one that did not scare his boy, that a father's duty was not to avoid dying in front of his son, this a father could not control, but rather that if a father did have to die in front of his son, he ought to die as well as he was able, to do it in a way that left his son with something, that left his son with the strength to live, and the strength to know that one day he could die well himself, as his father had....”

― Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

“Perplexed and unhappy she would seek out her father on all social occasions and would sit down beside him. Like a very small child this large muscular creature would sit down beside him because she felt lonely, and because youth most rightly resents isolation, and because she had not yet learnt her hard lesson—she had not yet learnt that the loneliest place in this world is the no-man's-land of sex.”

― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“Reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much. They gave more than they had, but less than what we needed.”

― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“My father. He was, I realize now, rather small for a man, both lean and compact, but as a small child you inhabit a land of giants. And fathers are the tallest giants of all.”

― Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square

“Paternally Grateful by Stewart Stafford

O flesh of my flesh, know this,

I would give my life willingly,

Endure any ordeal or torment,

So you may grow and prosper.

Tongues lisping out male mockery,

Knock a noble half of themselves,

And consume their bitter meat,

In acts of black hole cannibalism.

Fathers' legacies pass into legend,

No more alive than they once were,

Moral stains are gazer's blemishes,

A scratched cornea in a cloudy eye..

― Stewart Stafford

“In the end, he somehow ended up looking like her father. Even with the dark bloody hair, pimple face and thin, crooked smile, he, like everything else, eventually looked like her father in the end.”

― Rachel Roth, The Undead Redhead: The Girl in the Mall

“From the Coffee Klatch Kvetch - Chapter - Excerpt

(Following a sandwich delivery)

"Jesus, I can't eat this. It tastes like the salami was in the bottom of someone's shoes! They always screw up my sandwich!”

― Deena Goldstein, OK, Little Bird

“Growing up is a painful ordeal, and I often wonder why we do it.”

― Mary J Carter, Rules of Engagement

“Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of course children know they will lose their parents, they know it from early on, but most are able to believe that that particular present will not come, that it is years away....”

― Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

“The Fathers speak of prayer as consisting of a single thought (monologistos euche). Strictly speaking it is not even a thought, but rather an awareness of being totally absorbed in the reality of God. One can, nevertheless, call this conscious experience ‘thought’, because it is not simply a state of confused feeling or the sensation of being lost in the ocean of inarticulate reality, but it is awareness of encounter with the personal infinity of God who loves us. It is the mind’s confirmation of the reality. I do not lose myself in this infinity, because it is the infinity of a personal God and of his love to which I respond with my love. For the heart is truly the place where one experiences the love of the other, and where one responds to the other. I do not lose myself, because it is the infinity of a personal God whose love is my delight; I depend on his love as I depend on his mercy, for face to face with him I still feel infinitely small, and a sinner.”

― Dumitru Stăniloae, Prayer and Holiness: The Icon of Man Renewed in God

“Joseph offers us a pure example of manhood through strength and humility. He protected and guided the Holy Family on a perilous journey, accepting the forthcoming challenges but never seeking recognition.”

― Allene vanOirschot

“She supposed that was the nature of things – sons look to their fathers when they are healthy and to their mothers when they are hurt.”

― Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

“Violence, man. At some level they pass that on to you, the violence. Unless you say no.’

‘Well, you are saying no...”

― Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

“In my unhappiness I persuaded myself that my father's disdain for his daughter was the natural state of affairs, the healthy state, and my female nature was the plague. But here we are at the truth, and it is he who is sick and I am who am well. What is the poison in his body? Maybe it's himself.”

― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“My father gave me a hammer and chisel to carry with me in my satchel. “With that you can make enough for a meal anywhere you go.” My father said. Joseph gave Joshua a wooden bowl. “Out of that you can eat the meal that Biff earns.”

― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“Does a mother ever step back and see that it could be her doing, when she realizes that both her sons turned out to be their abusive father.

Is she more upset that she tolerated it from their dad OR mad that her daughters-in-law won't tolerate it from her sons.”

― Niedria D. Kenny

“It isn't easy, being a wicked stepfather. There are no guidelines. Western literature is filled with tips on how to become a wicked stepmother. Give your stepkid a poison apple. Make her clean the chimney while your daughters go to the ball. Ditch them in a forest and make them find their way home with bread crumbs. Stepfathers don't get an instruction manual. They have to learn to be wicked on their own.”

― Daisy L. Stewart, Stepfathers Are People Too

“The best gift for a future mother is a present father.”

― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“My father would take me into the voting booth with him

when I was little.

He also took me house to house raising

Dollars for Democrats.

He was gone by the time I turned 30,

but I feel him with me every time I vote,

even if there's no booth anymore

and no lever to pull to ensure privacy.

I took my mother to vote every single election

after she stopped driving,

even when she was in an assisted living residence.

Never would we pass up the opportunity to vote.”

― Shellen Lubin

“Imagine. To have your father sitting down eating dinner or shining his shoes while watching TV. To have your front door blown off its hinges and the police rush in. To see your father in handcuffs, led away.”

― Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer

“When you were a little girl, if your father was also your mother, you’re probably a superwoman...”

― Nanette L. Avery

“Do you know who she was talking about?’ he asked. ‘The nightingale?’

‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Yes, I do.’

He nodded and waited for me to explain. When I didn’t say anything more, he just looked at me and smiled. I smiled back. I think it was the loveliest moment we’d ever shared.

He didn’t need me to tell him about Mama and the nightingale. It was enough that I understood.”

― Lucy Strange, The Secret of Nightingale Wood

“He smelt of summer air and engines and pipe smoke and faraway places.”

― Lucy Strange, The Secret of Nightingale Wood