Trying To Be A Good Father Quotes

#1. I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

David Charvet

#2. I love comedies. I love watching them. I think I've always been afraid of being on them a little bit.

Jeremy Sisto

#3. My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.

Ziggy Marley

#4. When you go into projects, you can't look at it as limited; you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true to the writer's vision.

Jolene Purdy

#5. There is never any lack at Athens of tongues ready and willing to stir up the passions of the common people; this kind of oratory is nurtured by the applause of the mob in all free communities; but this is especially true of Athens, where eloquence has the greatest influence.

Livy

#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. One of the many pieces of advice his father had given him - besides the importance of antivenom and the need for a good, sturdy blade - was that field anthropology was ninety percent preparation, and ten percent trying desperately to recover when you didn't prepare properly.

Ben Mezrich

#8. If someone creates a Nobel Prize for Unsung Hero, my nominee will be the divorced single mother

E. Mavis Hetherington

#9. You look like an accident going somewhere to happen

Richard Wright

#10. I shook my head, trying to make sense out of what had happened. As before, no sense came. I completely lost every sense of right and wrong and good and bad. I became this black, suffocating thing, everything I feared in others. I became Javier. I became my father.

Karina Halle

#11. The first question of the Westminster Shorter Catechism reads, "What is the chief end of man?" The Catechism's answer: "Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever."[10] God graciously linked the pursuit of our chief purpose with our greatest experience of joy.

Hugh Ross

#12. The world is always ending for someone. It's a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. 'The world is always ending for someone,' he says. She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did.

Neil Gaiman

#13. Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff.

Peter Dinklage

#14. But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.

Robert Foster Bennett

#15. Care for each person you meet as if you secretly know they are going to die tomorrow but they don't know it yet. They need your compassion. Or, if that is too morbid, pretend you are their mother. My baby!

Anonymous

#16. It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

Tim Hansel

#17. One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.

Igor Stravinsky

#18. The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.

Octavia Butler

#19. I think 'bout all of it, you know. You and me, being here together. It's always been you.

S.D. Hendrickson

#20. As I once told your mother, I do not accept trying. Trying is not good enough. Change. You can.

Jane Lark

#21. You still need to work on a lot of things," Diane did not say. "I'm sorry your father isn't here," she also did not say. "But I am trying so, so hard. I am, Josh. I am, I am, I am," she did not say. As far as things go, her self-control was pretty good.

Joseph Fink

#22. Worldview is often confused with perception; rather, it is our perception that influences our worldview.

Asa Don Brown

#23. My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between books" to keep the name in front of the reading public. That's a challenging time for an author.

Tom Robinson

#24. The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.

Steve Farrar

#25. You didn't bring it up. It's always on my mind. In a way it's good to talk about it. To get some of it out of my heart, even for a minute.

Rainbow Rowell

#26. To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.

Gerry Spence