Quotes About Fathers

To speak frankly, the family bond in the civilized regime causes fathers to desire the death of their children and children to desire the death of their fathers.

For all the Fathers and Daddy's that are not with us Happy Father's Day. You are missed and loved.

For all the Fathers and Daddy's that are not with us.'' Happy Father's Day. You are missed and loved.

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to have fathers and mothers share responsibility.

We have seen that the early church fathers didn't have clarity on justification by faith alone. At the same time, they didn't blatantly deny the truth as Trent did. It is one thing to be fuzzy or inconsistent regarding a truth in the Scriptures, but it is quite another thing to explicitly deny it altogether. Neuhaus

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers. Most are worse. But a few are better." —HOMER, The Odyssey.

Some of the fathers were of opinion that every believer has his guardian angel. This subject needs no hot debate. It may suffice us to know the whole hierarchy of angels is employed for the good of the saints.

I'd discovered how proud and fragile men could be, the sense of self that courses through their veins. I knew that fathers and sons were capable of killing each other. Whether it was father's killing their sons, or sons killing the fathers, men always emrged victorious , and all that was left for me to do was weep.

And this is all the God the grandsons of the Pilgrim Fathers had left. Aloft on a pillar of dollars.

It could probably qualify as an epidemic among American men: this stubborn reluctance to embrace our wholeness, this stoic denial that we had come from our mothers as well as our fathers. It was sad, really-tragic. So wasteful of human lives, as our wars and drive-by shootings kept proving to us; all one had to do was turn on CNN or CBS News. And yet, it was comic, too—the lengths most men went to to prove that they were tough guys.

O rake not up the ashes of our fathers! Implacable resentment was their crime, And grievous has the expiation been.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers...

Harlow Giles Unger

Two cheder students were discussing how hard and tiring their studies had become, and impulsively one blurted: "Let's run away!" "Run away? … Our fathers would catch up with us and give us a sound thrashing." "So we'll hit them back!" "What? Hit your father?! You must be mad. Have you forgotten the Commandment—always to honor your father and mother?" "Mmh…. So you hit my father and I'll hit yours.

When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were impostors, as farmers and as fathers, too. In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories. To really believe that others even existed in either category was to break the First Commandment.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

I cannot help thinking that, if mine and Ellis's book exists, there might be men, even if it is only a handful, who read it, and see that they must never marry. Or there might be grown-up children who read it, and forgive their fathers. I don't think it is silly of me, to wish to spare people pain. The book may not change the law, not on its own, but it may spare people pain.

Fathers remain opaque to their sons, he thought, largely because the sons find it so hard to believe that there's anything in the father worth seeing. Until he's dead, and it's too late. Mercifully, doctors are also opaque to their patients.

A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.

There is no stronger brotherhood than between two boys who discover that both were born to fathers who waged war on their sons.

I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.

Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.

The working concept of God for most ordinary Christians is - if one may venture a bold guess- shaped more by the combination of Greek philosophy and Islamic theology that was powerfully injected into the thought of Christendom at the beginning of the High Middle Ages than by the thought of the fathers of the first four centuries.