Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Our fathers of faith have done a great job delivering our nations from the clutches of idolatry and witchcraft through signs and wonders
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he'd ever done. His greatest sin. I wanted to ask him if there was any reason why the Catholic Church would co...
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's...
You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual in...
When he died I had been away from home for a little over a year. In that year I had had time to become aware of the meaning of all my father’s bitter warnings, had discovered the secret of his proudly...
DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)
Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.
Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them bette...
She serves me a piece of it a few minutesout of the oven. A little steam risesfrom the slits on top. Sugar and spice -cinnamon - burned into the crust.But she's wearing these dark glassesin the kitche...
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
To say that I wished I wasn't there would be a ludicrous understatement, but I'd only ever had the illusion of choice: We have to do this, Hank had said. It's for Ellis. To refuse would have been an a...
Both man and woman have their own parts to play in bringing faith to the next generation, and the woman's role is particularly important. How can we ever think that the female sex is inferior when we...
Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her--and you. ... And like him, perhaps I send you back, knowing---as he knew of me--that he will protect you with his li...
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Because Dad told you he'd be here forever. Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away.
They are always so quiet, he said, turning to Papa. So quiet.They are not like those loud children people are raising these days, with no home training and no fear of God, Papa said, and I was certain...
I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.