Quotes About Responsibility

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death.

To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be based upon what is best for them.

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.