Quotes About Fatherless

In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.

readers to consider Jesus as their wise teacher. Jesus the rabbi insists that true faith needs to be shown in deeds of mercy and justice. He sums up his ethic with a revision of Old Testament emphases: "Pure religion, undefiled before God our Father, is this — to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world" (James 1:27).

I think in today's society we are dealing with an epidemic of fatherless homes. We're turning everywhere else for people to be fathered.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

Dearest Virgin Scribe, without his father, he was so alone, even as he was surrounded by people who served him.

Well, my dad died when I was three." Shoot. That's right. Some of us have actual things to complain about.

Biblical teaching called for cohesive families whose happiness was based on the bonding of one female and one male in a durable relationship of covenant fidelity in love, committed to protect the life and well-being of their offspring. Fatherless children were the strongest argument against hedonic sexual experimentation.

As a fatherless son, so a sonless father will be embraced by none. —FERDOWSI, Shahnameh

I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal part pirate. I have no father. There's nothing unusual about that -even children who do have fathers are often surprised to see them. My own father came out of the sea and went back that way. He was crew on a fishing boat that harboured with us one night when the waves were crashing like dark glass. His splintered hulll shored him for long enough to drop anchor inside my mother. Shoals of babies vied for life. I won.

Growing up in Chicago is hard. I'd say 80 percent of the people ain't really got no daddies. Their household wasn't right. All they know is the streets and getting some money to support each other and support their family.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong; and a boy deprived of a father's care often develops, if he escape the perils of youth, an independence and vigour of thought which may restore in after life the heavy loss of early days.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong; and a boy deprived of a father's care often develops, if he escape the perils of youth, an independence and vigour of thought which may restore in after life the heavy loss of early days. It

A woman's relationship with her father will have a profound impact on all her future relationships with men. The fatherless daughter lacks a template. Fatherless daughters are more likely to be promiscuous—so GREAT, thanks Mum, I'm going to be a slut!!!!!!!!!! —Entry in Ellen O'Farrell's diary, written a week before her fifteenth birthday

In the new era of identity politics, Moore became the wrong kind of woman with whom to identify. Little did Rich and her adherents imagine in the 1970s and '80s that the fatherless Moore had been reared by lesbians and educated by feminists.

There's a saying that my mom actually used to say to me when I was a kid, which is, "A fatherless child thinks all things are possible and nothing is safe.

Its hard growing up without a father, but its easy when you have a fantastic mother who plays both roles.

Deadbeat dads are like a plague on society and all should be neutered with a rusty breadknife.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

When you spread forth your hands, I hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I no longer listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. Is that too little?

A fatherless girl thinks all things are possible, and nothing is safe.

Remembering the fatherless feeling, the longing to be picked up and tossed into the air and caught with a laugh, and carried on a shoulder ride as his father-protector strode fearless through the world.

Our priests like to be called father, while claiming that they are fatherless.