Fathers Quotes

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There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite lik

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Love Fathers Parenting Children

Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the oth

Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths.

Fathers Woman Other

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Death Fathers Die

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries.

Christopher Hitchens

Death Fathers Mortality Writers Sons

I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid

I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet

Rodney Dangerfield

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equiv

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Nature Family Fathers

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

Pride Fathers Sons Affirmation

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

Family Fathers Fathersday

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstbo

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applications to enlist in the armed forces. I didn't want to be involved in this decision either way, especially since I was being regularly taunted for not having 'sent' any of my children to fight in the wars of resistance that I supported. (As if I could 'send' anybody, let alone a grown-up and tough and smart young man: what moral imbeciles the 'anti-war' people have become.)

Christopher Hitchens

War Funny Courage Morality Fathers Enemies Humour Resistance Iraq War War On Terror Iraq Sons Antiwar Civilisation

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of hi

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

Daughters Fathers Moon Stars

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand somet

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.

Christopher Hitchens

Death God Religion Atheism Daughters Fatherhood Fathers Mortality Yeats