George W. Bush Quotes

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.

That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.

Fathers matter.

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.

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

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

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

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

In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them.

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, … family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation.

if we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing – missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.