Quotes About Bad Fathers

#1. In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Louis De Bernieres

#2. Usually bullies have severe mothers and bad fathers, and they are usually frightened of them. That is why they are bullies, I think. There is something wrong at home. I have found that with children in general and this applies to men as well.

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. She looked at Stiorra and grinned, and I wondered whether that was what the two girls had in common: bad fathers.

Bernard Cornwell

#4. There are good fathers and bad fathers, good sons and bad sons, good husbands and bad ones, but great friends are all alike. We choose them and keep them. We aren't bound to them by anything but love.

Sarah Manguso

#5. I'm used to driving fast; I'm a New Yorker.

DMX

#6. Dad!" I said, trying to get his attention. "It is so official you are a bad father. Good fathers do not shoot their daughters!"
I crossed my arms and brought out the big guns. "I am so telling Mom when I die.

Darynda Jones

#7. The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious.

David Ignatius

#8. Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

George Adair

#9. I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

Nicolas Cage

#10. They say that cigarettes will kill you, eventually. Fine. That's just fine. I only wish they'd do it faster.

Neil Gaiman

#11. I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously?

Jessica Capshaw

#12. Poetry is not the most important thing in life ... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

Dylan Thomas

#13. In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Andrew Young

#14. They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

David Bennun

#15. Most pro bodybuilders have bad relationships with their fathers. We want to prove something.

Lou Ferrigno

#16. He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn't sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of resting in his wrecked mind.

Christy A. Campbell

#17. Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

David Mamet

#18. She didn't fool herself about either her lack of faith or her stubborn love of the idea itself. 'Come

Stephen King

#19. I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.

Louis C.K.

#20. I'm getting a bunch more face tattoos, because it doesn't look like I'm ever going to have to apply to a Walmart or Best Buy.

Al Jourgensen

#21. It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm's way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things?

Thomas Lynch

#22. We women love longest even when all hope is gone.

Jane Austen

#23. My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give up cheese. I can't give up dairy.

Parvesh Cheena

#24. A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

Joyce Cary

#25. The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.

Chris Weitz

#26. Discipline is important as long as you're having a good time. What I always did was I did what I enjoyed, and I think that's why I don't have any grey hairs.

John Zorn

#27. My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.

Albert Einstein