Quotes About Father

What matters to the children's well-being isn't so much the level of the family's wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or the father.

The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.

1266What matters to the children's well-being isn't so much the level of the family's wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or the father.

A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.

In May 1919 Berle, assuming the stagy veneer of cynicism of a disappointed crusader, wrote his father, "I have come to the conclusion that no statement of ideals by anybody will ever get any reaction from me again. If I can trust myself I shall be happy; if I trust anyone else I shall be a fool.

I call him Pops because he is my true father; my creator. And we've had a special relationship. Whenever I felt lost or needed help or guidance, I could count on Pops.

and that makes him wish all over again that his dad would stop crying, so he can have a turn.

Found in a small stone cave bitten from the roadside, stitchless save for his great outsized boots and a plague of flies, fat on the human scrappage of dinners long past, Toad squatted in the slitted stomach of a warm child, eating loudly the face of her hapless, headless father, who sat a good foot off the ground impaled up the ass on a pointed post.

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

The fact that for the initial years of the war Roger's father had been a conscientious objector added more poignancy.

Bob Klose left the band during the summer of 1965 at the insistence of both his father and his college tutors. He did surreptitiously play a few more times with us, but even though we were losing the person we considered our most proficient musician, it didn't seem like a major setback. This remarkable prescience – or sheer lack of imagination – was to become something of a habit.

Steve came from a very different background to the band. His father Tommy was a fisherman on the Aran Islands, off the west coast of Ireland; when the great American documentary maker Robert Flaherty made his film Man of Aran about life on the islands in the 1930s, Steve's father was one of the featured characters.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

Anglisc voices: words drumming like apples split over wooden boards, round, rich, stirring. Like her father's words, and her mother's, and her sister's. Utterly unlike Onnen's otter-swift British or the dark liquid gleam of Irish.

I never knew my father," she said again, slowly. She could only tell the truth. "Of the rest, I may not speak.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

Mon père, secrètement, devait étouffer dans sa vie mais il manquait du courage d'une vraie révolte. La petite fille que j'étais sera la seule victime de sa lamentable rébellion.

Well, so that's the prosecutor! He lived and lived, and then died! And they will say in the papers that he died to the regret of his staff and all mankind, a respected citizen, a rare father, a model husband, and they will write a lot more stuff and nonsense about him; they will add, maybe, that he was mourned by widows and orphans; but if one were to investigate the matter thoroughly, it will emerge that he had nothing to him except his bushy eyebrows.

After it all, am still the weird father of your child.

Everybody was furious, especially my Father, who still is. As soon as I became conscious of anything I was furious too, at having been born a girl; I have since discovered that it has certain advantages.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

I asked father whether they led. 'Like everything else in Cairo' he said, 'Round and round in circles, to everywhere and nowhere.

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.