All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it. — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.” — Lydia Netzer Copy Share Image
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
My paternal poppa, Alec, was a taxi driver and swimming coach. He taught all his grandchildren how to swim and loved all… — Ellyse Perry Copy Share Image
“Raising The Kids …Running the Family Is A Combined Effort of Both Dad & Mom!” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.' — Lecrae Copy Share Image
“Had he not been the keeper of the flame, of anguish, trapped under the brilliance of what she had been to him?… — Noorilhuda Copy Share Image
Do you see that God's sometimes painful dealings with you are but an extension of his fatherhood? Do you understand that his… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Despite the rhetorical reverence our society accords motherhood and fatherhood, in reality the everyday work of parenting garners little social respect and… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
With a combination of warped Christianity and White supremacy, enslavers created an absolutely bizarre notion of patrimony and fatherhood that was both… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Nobody ever says, 'Hey daddy, thanks for knockin' out this rent.' 'Hey daddy, I sure love this hot water.' 'Hey daddy, it's… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
You have a kid and realize what's really important. It actually takes pressure off everything. Nothing will come before fatherhood for me,… — Austin Rivers Copy Share Image
“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Dwight Eisenhower said that from the beginning, his mother and father operated on an assumption that set the course of his life… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Rationalizing him and the glass pipe, Dad smoked crack, but he was not a crackhead; it was just something he did. To… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“I look at my parents the way mothers look at their toddlers. I take every chance to witness them undisturbed. To study… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Did you have any yourself?" she said. "Just one." Harold thought of David, but it was too much to explain. He saw… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“Two weeks ago, Aaron and Isaac, I learned your mother Laura has breast cancer. My heart feels impaled. These words, so useless… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient,… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“Black Fatherhood is an incomparable gift to Black men that truly comprehend what it means to be called dad, daddy, father, or… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
Ode to Dad: My dad was a Father to the whole block. There were only two Dads on the block, mine and… — Keshia M Williams Copy Share Image
“That anyone could father a child, but a real man chooses to be a dad.” — J. Sterling Copy Share Image
Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
