Gracie Allen Quotes

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly clear when my daughter communicates with me in the same ways that I communicate with her. I can really tell where and when I went wrong.

There is no other relationship quite like that which can and should exist between a boy and his dad. It can be one of the most nurturing, joyful relationships in life, one that can have a profound impact on who boys become and also on who dads become.

What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad.

Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.

A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he’ll grow up to be a demon just because his dad became one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.