Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
At times of distress we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously and I would I think be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.
But whatever my failure I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession just as my grandfathers were in theirs in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan.
In my experience it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging especially for fathers.
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law that is a very viable vision but instead of that we have quasi mob rule.
Equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood as it has been so tragically in our time it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities mentor and tutor students and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.
Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools equipped with tortures called an education.
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers of our seamen of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?
It's funny though speaking of fathers and sons because me and John Goodman played father and son like five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence ' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
Babies don't need fathers but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person like my mom but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.