George Saunders Quotes

My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.

My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.

I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.

I can take stress on myself but I don't like it when stress comes to my husband or children.

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.

A child's cry touches a father's heart.

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.

~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.

At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

I don't care how old your children get, you're always a dad.

Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

Girls learn how to relate to men from the way their fathers love them. And if their fathers really love them and want the very best for them, then they've seen that kind of good behavior that they'd want in a husband.

Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.

I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother.

I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

A dad stands tallest when he kneels to pray with his children.

A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini.

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.

There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.

Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.