Father Of Your Child Quotes

I'm telling you all of this because I'll never be your father, and you will always be my child. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood. — Gustav Stresemann

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child. — Edward Zigler

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy. — Bertrand Piccard

There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children — Jim George

the Father uses the valley of shadow to teach you about His sufficiency and goodness. Don't despair, child, while you're walking through it. — Angela Elwell Hunt

Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp. — John Steinbeck

Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his own child. — William Shakespeare

It doesn't matter that nobody sees your face or knows your name, my wide eyed child, my father said to me. You know it. You be it.
You are. — Patricia Raybon

Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs

Q. When is rape not rape?
A. When it is your father or stepfather. — S. Caroline Taylor

I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother. — Ruth Ahmed

The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father. — Alexander McCall Smith

The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life. — Warren Farrell

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. — Abraham Lincoln

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually. — Gordon Brown

You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child. — Max Lucado

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child. — Yoko Ono

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence. — Steve Largent

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child. — Walter Mosley

My father was in charge of managing the farm. — Julia Child

It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds. — Emily Yoffe

For a child, being a child comes naturally. It is
relatively simple. But for an adult to become a father, it is quite another story. — Anupam Sibal

I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child. — R. Kelly

Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child. — Rokia Traore

Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. — Penelope Ward

Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him. — Basilea Schlink

A father must take credit for his child, but never a child for his father. — Miguel Syjuco

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. — Elizabeth Gaskell

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. — Camille Paglia

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new — Hermann Hesse

A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father. — Glenn Wheeler

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. — Red Auerbach

Prayer is the outstretched arms of the child for the Father's help. — E. M. Bounds

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father. — Halldor Laxness

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend? — Al Capp

Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child — Miguel Syjuco

Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad. — Sophocles

As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies. — Truman Capote

But sometimes I wanted to feel like a child, to know that he would stand in front of me while waves crashed towards us or arrows come at us. — Belinda Jeffrey

I don't think any child could see her father beginning to love someone else and not feel jealousy. — Kristin Cashore

There aren't many fathers around here ... If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up. — John Redwood

Christ's sacrifice satisfied the Father's anger so that, as his child, you will receive his discipline but need not fear his wrath. — Paul David Tripp

I've learned ... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult. — Andy Rooney

When he saw the child of some prostitute throw stones at a crowd, Diogenes shouted to him, "Take care that you don't hit your father! — Luis E. Navia

As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child. — Anthony Browne

It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father. — Kevin DeYoung

In all of your living, don't forget to live. — Ricky Maye

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes. — Tupac Shakur