Jane Smiley Quote

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

Fathers and daughters have a special bond. She is always daddy's little girl.

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

As a father, we need to actively listen.

It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w...

Every child grows up thinking their father is a hero or villain until they are old enough to realize that he is just a man

I knew a lot of fellas who live in Lizzy and never got involved in some of the stuff that we were getting into. This was because they had a strong father figure at home, so they couldn’t have gotten i...

If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can ever o...

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.