Fathers
Quotes - Greet your brother with warmth
“I
wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world!"
"Nonsense,
child; you'll think your husband better."
"Impossible,"
said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; "husbands are an inferior class
of men, who require keeping in order.”
―
George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Because
Dad told you he'd be here forever.
Because
I thought forever was like Mars -- far away.”
―
Kwame Alexander
“Anyone
could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own.
A parent should be selfless not selfish.”
―
Penelope Ward, Playboy Pilot
Fathers
Are The Humble Everyday Real Servicemen
“Fathers
Are
The
Humble
Everyday
Real
Servicemen”
―
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short
Stories for Every Day of the Year
“For
generations fathers had watched earth and sea.”
―
Pearl S. Buck, The Big Wave
“You
can deny him, he thought, watching his father across the table. You can hate
him, love him, pity him, never speak to or look at him in the eye again, never
deign even to be in his crabbed and bitter presence, but you're still stuck
with the son of a bitch. One way or another he'll always be your daddy, not
even all-powerful death was going to change that.”
―
Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
“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.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“I’m
there for my son 24/7, because I don’t want him to take the road we took. I
believe if I had a father around, I would’ve learned plenty things. There was
no father there to tell me look here son, this is the wrong way to go. When we
were coming up, we learned through trial and error. Anthony ‘Ada’ Allen, one of
the former leaders and founders of the Rebellion Raiders street gang.”
―
Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“Neither
father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither
looking away nor surrendering, until the sun finished its daily pilgrimage, for
no day is so long that it is not ended by nightfall.”
―
Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati
“The
fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth have been set on edge.”
―
Andrew Garve, The Late Bill Smith
“I
was the son of the man who had ruined everything.”
―
Karl Ove Knausgaard
“Daughters
are never of so much consequence to a father.”
―
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Greet
your brother with warmth
And
sincerity
Protect
your sister and honour your mother
For
she bore you in pain
And
made you who you are
KhoiSan
Book of Wisdom”
―
rassool jibraeel snyman
“My
special possessions are my sacred family.”
―
Lailah Gifty Akita
“Man
is man.”
―
Lailah Gifty Akita
“If
you ever have a daughter—a blessing I wouldn't wish on anyone, because it's
Murphy's Law that sooner or later she will break your heart—anyhow, as I was
saying, if you ever have a daughter, you'll begin, without realizing it, to
divide men into two camps: those you suspect are sleeping with her and those
you don't. Whoever says that's not true is lying through his teeth.”
―
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“[Eddie]
wondered if every criminal saw himself as the hero of his own story and if
every thankless son was convinced he'd been mistreated by his father.”
―
Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“I
knew a lot of fellas who live in Lizzy and never got involved in some of the
stuff that we were getting into. This was because they had a strong father
figure at home, so they couldn’t have gotten involved. The few of those who did
end up in the gang even though their father was in the home, their father was
just there as a provider, but he was not directly involved in their lives.
Shelton ‘Apples’ Burrows reform gang leader”
―
Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“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 other
at
the dinner table.”
―
Thabo Jijana, Failing Maths and My Other Crimes
“I
know that not every family is a clean-cut nuclear Mom and Dad at home situation
- but I think every father needs to do whatever he can to be present in the
lives of his kids. If you are in a situation where you have not been - fight
for it. Don’t give up till you get it. Don’t be a jerk about it - don’t “fight”
mom - but “fight” whatever things tell you to just give up. Send cards, make
phone calls, pay your support, and do whatever you can to be present in the
lives of your children.”
―
Josh Hatcher, Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity
“She
is curled up inside his smell. He always made her feel both safer and smaller –
the latter the price of the former.”
―
Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree
“We
have a dilemma, then,” Finnikin said fiercely. “Because I prayed that you would
grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not
been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?”
―
Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
