A man us measured by the depths of his commitments.
Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I w...
I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.
No matter how old a mother is she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Every man, who desires to become a true father, has to look continually to the Lord, that he might learn of Him how to relate to his own children
[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughter...
But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence.
A father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father gives all of himself that is good.
MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well I know how much you need your sleep so it was going to strike ten but I stopped i...
I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.
There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible her mother's cookbook and her father's checkbook.
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why...
When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were imposto...
When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?
The monsters are gone.""Really?" Doubtful."I killed the monsters. That's what fathers do.
My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.
There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
There is a rustle of dead leaves. Dried sap, a branch crack, the whirring teeth of Mr. Omaru's saw. My father--my real father--is a limb that got axed off the family tree a long time ago now. My mothe...
I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?