Top 56 Quotes About A Child Without A Father
#1. My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.
Phil Jackson
#3. Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.
Martin Scorsese
#4. My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.
Ivy Baker Priest
#5. As President, my father will change the labor laws that were put into place at a time when women were not a significant portion of the workforce. And he will focus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all.
Ivanka Trump
#6. 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
#7. I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.
James Pearse Connelly
#8. Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.
Cynthia Rylant
#9. Spare your father's white hair; spare the tender years of your child, offer a sacrifice for the prosperity of the emperor'. I replied 'no'. 'Are you a Christian?' asked Hilarian. And I answered 'yes I am'.
Vibia Perpetua
#10. I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.
Khaled Hosseini
#11. I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.
Winston Churchill
#12. I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.
R. Kelly
#13. To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#14. I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary, but he would have been much happier if I had wanted to be a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer. But what I wanted to do was read.
Robert Gottlieb
#15. You have to be intentional about receiving the Father's love. Seek God. Be passionate about it. No two people have the same experience of the Father's love, because every child of God is unique.
James Goll
#16. A 'good' father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a 'good' father who is also a 'brave' father will let the children without cultivate the child within.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. I wore white gloves. I lived with my mother & father. I was not a child. I was 37 years old. My bottom lip was swollen. I wore white gloves though I was not a servent. I did not play in a brass band. I was not a waiter. I was not a magician. I was the attendant of a museum.
Edward Carey
#18. The father of Ruth van Cleve's child, she reports, is under the protection and care of the Norfolk County Correctional Authority, awaiting sentencing for what Ruth van Cleve describes several times as operating a pharmaceutical company without a license.
David Foster Wallace
#19. You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it.
Derek Williams
#20. 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
#21. For a moment I hate myself for how I still obey my father without question. Like I'm still a child.
Celia Aaron
#22. Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.
Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos
#23. Without the support from religion
remember, we talked about it
no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
Leo Tolstoy
#24. That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
Maurice Sendak
#25. I'm looking forward to not being tired around my child. My father was tired a lot. I want to play ball with my child without having to grab my shoulder because I'm not physically fit. And I want to really teach my child and become his or her friend.
Chris Rock
#26. I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a father. I could not imagine my childhood without my mother. I also believe that it is cruel to take a baby away from its mother.
Stefano Gabbana
#27. 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
#28. And then I thought: perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so no one was a greater father than I.
Nicole Krauss
#29. A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
Barack Obama
#30. I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.
Augustine Of Hippo
#31. It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child.
Jim Harrison
#32. I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Hedy Lamarr
#33. Stretch out your hand to Him like a little child to his father so that He may lead you on.
Francis De Sales
#34. My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
A.R. Rahman
#35. Rachel kneeled beside Jacob. She took the child's hand and pressed it to the dirt. Her father had told Rachel that Harmons had been on this land since before the Revolutionary War.
"Don't ever forget what it feels like, Jacob," she whispered, and let her hand touch the ground as well.
Ron Rash
#36. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him.
Anonymous
#37. Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.
William Drummond
#38. It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.
Thomas Jefferson
#39. An unemployed father is always considered more detrimental to the family than an unemployed mother, and at the same time, child psychologists kept coming up with new responsibilities for parents that seemed to fall to the mother alone.
Elisabeth Badinter
#40. No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free.
Muhammad
#41. Had you crawled out from under my bed when I was a child, I would have bludgeoned you to death with my father's mace." Brishen
Grace Draven
#42. My father, my father, and dost thou not hear
The words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?
'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;
Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#43. Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.
Henry B. Eyring
#44. I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed.
Emiliano Salinas
#45. Someday I'd like to be a father, not of a human child, but something more reasonable.
Dov Davidoff
#46. When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.
Elizabeth Charles
#47. How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Walter Scott
#48. Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like a child crying for his mother. Now he lifted his eyes to a dark, empty room in Jizan and the unusual, lingering scent of roses, and wept in his hands for his Father.
V.S. Carnes
#49. 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
#50. When the Earth was just a child,
He searched for his mother Venus;
And for his father Mars,
But they were not home;
They were gone elsewhere,
Out there, in the great expanse;
Beyond the breathing universe.
Stephan Attia
#51. A child, I'm miserable admitting it, a child stands like a priest under his father's sky. Why do you fate me to fail you?
Denis Johnson
#52. If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.
Clyde Edgerton
#53. How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, 'Mother, I truly love you'? How about Father, who daily toils to provide for you? Fathers appreciate hearing those same precious words from the lips of a child, 'I love you.'
Thomas S. Monson
#54. For to us a child is born,
for to us a son is given,
and the government shall be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Isaiah 9:6
Anonymous
#55. Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at this time of the interview (while in their 20s and 30s) that they would never be safe with their fathers, and that they would have to defend themselves as long as their fathers lived.
Judith Lewis Herman
#56. I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.
Robert Carlyle
