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As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that threaded their sound through all the fibers of the house, his occupation of the room down the hall was no more uncomfortable than the persistence of Rabbit's own childhood in an annex of his brain; but when the stuff with hormones and girls and cars and beers began, Harry wanted out of fatherhood.
- John Updike
Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.
- David Harewood
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
- Anais Nin
If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
- Barack Obama
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
- Catherine of Siena
When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?
- Charles Spurgeon
Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.
- Mark Driscoll
It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
- George Eliot
A child's cry touches a father's heart.
- Charles Spurgeon
You see, it's one thing to accept Him as Lord, another to recognize Him as Savior - but it's another matter entirely to accept Him as Father.
- Max Lucado
The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively.
- Marcus Aurelius