Quotes about father

If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.

As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so, no one was a greater father than I.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

We all come into the world with baggage which, in the end, we have no hope of reclaiming, The main item in mine was my father.

Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.

When I woke up, it was daylight. That is when I remembered that I had a father. During the alert, I had followed the mob, not taking care of him. I knew he was running out of strength, close to death, and yet had abandoned him.

I went to look for him.

Yet at the same time a thought crept into my mind: If only I didn't find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care of myself...Instantly, I felt ashamed, ashamed of myself forever.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?

It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.

My father used to tell me, "Alex, there is nothing wrong with being scared...as long as you don't let it affect you until the danger is over. Being hysterical is okay, too...afterwards and in private. Tears are not unmanly...in the bathroom with the door locked. The difference between a coward and a brave man is mostly a matter of timing."

Doubting the great Descartes ... was a reaction I learned from my father: Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"