Sigmund Freud Quotes

I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

I've never read one book about my father.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.

I was definitely a Daddy's boy.

I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.

Fathers are the first image of who God is!

I think being the girl of such a huge father figure, you want to be that tomboy... because you are so close to your dad.

A child identifies his parents with God, whether or not the adults want that role. Most children 'see' God the way they perceive their earthly fathers.

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

I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who created me? What's going on here? I think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with.

The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

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

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.

Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.

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

Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.