Quotes About Empathy

I just wish I could understand my father.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

A child's cry touches a father's heart.

I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.

I could only relate [to the family] that I, the father of three sons, could hardly imagine what it would be to lose one, far less three of my boys, in such a cruel and senseless manner.

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out.

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

right now,I am my father

In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and I'll pay attention to him.

When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego suddenly shrinks because you are so touched by the dimension of your surroundings.

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.